SOLDIERS IN TROUBLE
THREE NEW ZEALANDERS CHARGED IN BRITAIN. AFTER PUBLICHOUSE BRAWL. <B.v Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 29. The magistrate al Arundel, Sussex, today took p lenient view of an escapade by three New Zealand privates because he was of the opinion that “they had come so far from home and been in England for some time, and they had got a little fed up because they couldn’t do what they had come for —fight the enemy.” According to the polive, Privates Richard Steele, Neile Raymond McCarthy and Raymond Charles Henson got mad drunk, assaulted the police and damaged a public-house. They were bound over for a year. The police stated that Steele was found fighting a civilian in a hotel, and when a constable tried to separate the pair McCarthy and Henson joined in and attacked the constables. The accused men denied that they had been drunk and declared that they were involved in a fight because a woman was being assaulted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 4
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