DISORDER IN CHURCH
BELL IN EARLY MORNING SEAMAN BEFORE COURT (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Saturday His attention attracted by the ringing of a bell early on the morning of July 6, Mr A. Poppleton, a fireman on duty at the Miramar fire station, went to St. Aidan’s Church and found John Lucas Martin, seaman, and three other men in the building. They were throwing stones at the electric lights and shouting. Evidence to this effect was given before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, when Martin, who did not appear, was fined £2 for behaving in a disorderly manner. Martin was also charged with wilfully damaging electric light fittings in St. Aidan’s Church, and was ordered to pay the cost of the damage, 15s. Martin, when interviewed, admitted entering the church and ringing the bell, but refused to disclose the identity of his three companions, said Constable L. E. Fitzgibbon, Miramar. Three seven-year-old pohutukawa trees in Miramar Avenus, each valued at £5, were damaged, but Martin denied doing this, the constable added. His three companions had not been traced.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 9
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185DISORDER IN CHURCH Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 9
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