CONSTABLE ROUGHLY HANDLED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 270, 14 November 1910, Page 8

CONSTABLE ROUGHLY HANDLED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Saturday. A brutal attack on a constable at Port Chalmers resulted in two firemen, Wm. Mulcahey and Charles Ridley, from the steamer Kia Ora, being heavily penalised this morning. The constable saw the two firemen going up the street, one carrying a bundle very suggestive of uncustomed goods. He asked the bearer to come to the police station to have the bundle examined, and fireman and constable were proceeding down the street quietly, when Ridley rushed into a public house and brought out seven or eight other firemen. This pack attacked the constable, who lost charge of the man with the suspicious 'bundle, bat succeeded in arresting Ridley. Several young men belonging to the town came to the constable's assistance, otherwise he would have been' : more'severely handled, as kicking and punching' .were the mode of attack. ' ";,..■.".'.*'? ~, When the", constable' came out after locking up. Kidley, a. melee was in progress, and- he tackled one of the worst offenders, bu£. was knocked down and dazed by a bldw.ori/the side of the head from Mulcahey's .clenched fist. Mulcahey was arrested. ..:,;"

Mr. Asher, sJiP.i fined Mulcahey £5 or three months -for .assaulting the constable, and-.r£s; ,or:Shree months for obstructing Mm, the sentences to be concurrent. Ridley was .penalised in similar amounts.