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CAPE TORN IN SJfREET SCUFFLE While a constable was an.esting him in Victoria Street last everting, George Thornham struggled vigorously, tearing the constable’s maskAatosh cape. He was lined £5 in the I’olice Court this morning'and ordered to make good i he damage. Thornham, a ship’s ii, email, aged 36, pleaded guilty to .being found drunk in Victoria ijfreet., using obscene language ami committing mischief by wilfully damaging Government property to the e>3ent of £2 12s 6d.
Sonior-Sergeant Povjell gave the time of the offence as 1f.30. There was a crowd about when Jfhornham used the language. He had fa list of 23 previous convictions, and, was last before the court two weeks for much the same class of offence “He is a seaman who won’t go to, sea,” added the senior-sergeant. Accused that he did not remember much of <3le circumstances, and was fined £to, in default a month’s imprisoning nt, on the language charge. On tb e mischief charge he was ordered U • make good the damage, and he u?as convicted and discharged for dri/rkenness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1016, 5 July 1930, Page 10
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178RESISTED CONSTABLE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1016, 5 July 1930, Page 10
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