"HELPING" A SOLDIER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1643, 21 May 1919, Page 6

"HELPING" A SOLDIER.

AN EXPENSIVE RESCUE, i "POLICE INTEHFEBED WITH. "The ECtion must be got rid of thai returned soldiers ean come back here and do what they like. We are all grateful to them, but if the few who 6orir©a were allowed to misbehave themselves, we would have pandemonium in New Zealand. '' These remarks were made Ly Mr S. E. MeCarthy, S.M., at the Magrrtrate's Court to-day, when two m*o, Robert Faloon and Herbert Tajlor, charged fritti assaulting Constable Hurley at Sydenham, pleaded in mitigation that tlxy Lad gone to the assistance of a returned Beldier who was being arrested. "The constable had the returned soldier down, and a man most stiek up f#r his mate,'" raid Faloon. "We weren't the only two in it, either.*' "That has nothing to do with the charge," said Mr MeCarthy. "This sort of thing is becoming common, and the impression must be got rid of that returned soldiers ean break Use law witJi impimity.'" It was stated that the soldier jn <pcstion, owing to the efforts of the awused, had escaped. Previously, he hid been going quietly with the constable. After reading the section of the Aet relating to the offence of " obstructs«," Mr McCarthy stated that the police hai asked that the maximum penalty of £st should be imposed. He was not going to do v that in this instance; however. The accused would bo convicted and fined £5 each, in default, two months' imprisonment. ■