RAILWAY MAD.
At the li.M. Court, Christchurch, on Saturday, J. A. Savage, a man who seem? to be pursued by a desire to travel free on (ho rail.vays, and who has several times been punished for so doing, was charged with assaulting and resisting Constable Kelly at the Christchurch Railway Station on Friday. When put into the dock, and the charge read over to him, he said in an excited manner, “Yes, most certainly ; I did resist him. He dragged me out of the carriage where I was sitting, waiting for the ticket office to open ; he threw me down, tore the collar off my shirt, and knocked me about shamefully ; (hey al ivavs do it. Some time I shall stick a knife into them, or give them a pistol shot.” Constable Kelly stated that the prisoner was only a few days out of gaol after serving a sentence for a similar offence. Since his release he had several times travelled without a ticket. He told the guards that he was Captain Jones, Ac. Ad the railway employees knew him, and were instructed whenever they saw him in a train, to ask him for Inks ticket. On Friday witness saw him in a carriage, and asked him for his ticket. He said Ikhad a cheque cn the National Bank to pay his fa r e with. Witnesstoll him to come out, and, on his refusal, attempted to remove him. The prisoner threw himself lov n, and fought all the way to a cah, which had been procured to carry him to the lock-up. A railway guard deposed that on Thursday night the prisoner came to Christchurch in the late train. When asked for h : s ticket he said lie was Captain Hume. Inspector of Prison*, and offered apiece of tissue paper as a ticket. He did not pay his fare. The prisoner, in answer to the Bench, said he wa s undoubtedly Captain Hume. On Thursday night he sent up to Christchurch the Maori King and an Indian Chief, and followed them. He offered the guard two tickets, which were refused. Mi Beethum remanded the accused, ordering him to be charged as a lunatic and examined in the nsua l way. -Press.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1393, 17 September 1885, Page 1
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372RAILWAY MAD. Temuka Leader, Issue 1393, 17 September 1885, Page 1
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