BRAWL IN HOTEL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20915, 21 September 1939, Page 10

BRAWL IN HOTEL

THREE OFFENDERS FINED CASES IN CAMBRIDGE (Special to Times.) CA'.VL'BR 1 D'G-E, Wednesday The monthly sitting of the Cambridge " Alagistrate’s Court was held this morning, Air W. 11. Freeman, S.M., being on the- Bench. Alfred Wilson, Charles Snell and •Uric Nathaniel Broderson, quarry and road workers, of Cambridge, 'were charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in the Alasonic Hotel oil •Saturday, September 2, and also with being drunk.

Constable C. H. Maisey said he and I Constable It. Bowie entered the hotel i on the day in question and there was plenty of evidence that there had been a brawl. Broderson and Wilson : showed s\;ns of liquor, but they were j not drunk'. Broderson had a" black : eye and the others had marks of fight- j mg’. Each accused was convicted and fined £1 and costs 12s on the disorderly behaviour charge, and 10s each on the charges of drunkenness. Receiving Liquor Thomas Wilson, of Maungatautari, •was charged with receiving two bottles of beer from a stranger, the liquor having been obtained from a Cambridge hotel. Wilson, an elderly Maori, pleaded guilty, and was convicted and ordered to pay costs 12s. Obscene Language Herbert Henry Page, a quarry worker, of Cambridge, was charged with using obscene language in the Central Hotel on September 2. lie was convicted and fined £2 and costs 1 Os