DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR.
YOUNG MAN ARRESTED. THREE WEEKS’ IMPRISONMENT. *T don’t think you are giving me a fair go,” was the comment made by a young man, Sidney Charles Ross, to Messrs. F. E. Wilson and T. Furlong, J.P.’s, in the New Plymouth Court yesterday, when he deceived a sentence of three weeks’ imprisonment. Accused, who was taken into custody on Saturday afternoon, pleaded guilty to being found drunk in St. Aubyn Street, using obscene language, and assaulting the police. He elected to be dealt with summarily. The facts as explained by Senior-Ser-geant McCrorie were that the police received word that Ross was drunk and was behaving in a violent manner in Devon Street. He wanted to fight all and sundry. When Constable Butler went to investigate Ross had “cleared out.” He was subsequently located in the bar of the Terminus Hotel, but made off along St. Aubyn Street. When an attempt was made to arrest him in Brougham Street he resisted violently and struck the Constable. With the Assistance of civilians, however, Ross was taken to the police station. Accused was convicted of assault in Auckland and received a sentence of two years. He was given probationary license, but his term had still eight or nine days to run.
On the charge of drunkenness Ross was convicted only, but in view of his previous conviction the Bench intimated that he would be sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment with hard labor on each of the other tw r o charges, the terms to be concurrent.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1922, Page 6
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254DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR. Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1922, Page 6
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