FIGHT IN CELL
FOLLOWING ON ENCOUNTER IN STREET. MAN! FINED IN WELLIGTON. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON, This Day. Trouble uetween two men in a police cell after one had already been found fighting in the street was mentioned by Sub-Inspector Dempsey in Court today, when Thomas Francis King, a labourer aged 56, was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and fined £1 for fighting Alfred Toseland in Abel Smith Street.
The Sub.-Inspector said King was found fighting last night and was arrested and placed in a cell with John Paton Hardie, where another fight developed. King got a black eye and used a cell utensil to strike Hardie, who was now in hospital under observation. A remand was granted in a case in which King was charged with assaulting Hardie, and another in which Hardie was charged with drunkenness, procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order and wilfully breaking two panes of glass.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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154FIGHT IN CELL Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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