HARD LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 39, 15 February 1934, Page 11

HARD LABOUR.

ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE. THREE MEN CONVICTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday. "A deliberate and persistent assault, ' was how the magistrate, Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, characterised an offence which led to the appearance in the Police Court to-day of three young men, charged with assaulting Constable C'romie in the execution of his duty. TJie accused were Thomas Levy Daly, Arthur Francis Kean and Douglas Gordon PanneD. Daly and Kean were also charged with using obscene language. The charges to which the accused pleaded guilty related to happenings at St. Kilda Beach last Saturday afternoon, when the accused assaulted the constable. The magistrate said it had been urged thiit the men were under the influence of liquor, but offences were frequently committed under the influence of liquor. The place where two of the men had used obscene language was a bathing shed 011 the beach. The constable very properly checked them for using tlie language, and then these young men, knowing that he was a constable, had committed "a deliberate and persistent assault," in the course of which the constable was considerably injured. In cases of assault on constables the public interest had to be safeguarded. On the charge of using obscene language Daly and Kean were each fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, and on the charge of assault each of the accused was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour.