A CONSTABLE CHASTISED.
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_U the Magistrate's l.'oiirl, YVest[)ort, Constable Thos. Keenan was charged by, Police Inspector PAack with having assaulted .Margaret Duncan, wife ot the licensee of the \ ictoria Motel, on February Ist. The evidence of the complainant went to show that she was pestered by the constable, who iuviled lier to meet him on the night of February Ist, ant, in accepting the invitation, ansomc friends following, a short distance 'behiml. When the constable put-- his arm round her wnbi ,ihc pro-ilut-cil a hoekdy ytick .she had concealed and gave him a thrashing. The constable, it was stated, had offered UlO to keep the matter -411 iel, and had given a man the £10 to give to the complainant,, but he had cleared off with. it.
At the conclusion of the evidence for tho prosecution, counsel for the aecuscil sti'binitted tlmt no ofTence h a <t been disclosed, as the complainant, in accepting the invitation, an. tidpated what would happen, and in Ijoatin.y the policeman was' really a consenting' party.
The .Magistrate took this view of the matter, and commented on the
L-.vtraordinary con-duct of I''tc woman. Me dismissed the information wiihoul eailiii'g upon the det'enee.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5777, 4 March 1912, Page 3
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199A CONSTABLE CHASTISED. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5777, 4 March 1912, Page 3
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