"The police try to do a man a good turn, and this is the sort of thing they are up against," said ■Senior-Sergeant J. J. O'Grady, at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, referring to charges against the police made by a man arrested for drunkenness. .At the time of his previous appearanco in Coftrt, the accused had charged the constable concerned in his arrest with having nssaulted biw,« and with heinn; responsibly for his blood-stained condition, "This is a case of a criminal coin inn: before the Court, and trying to trot i-he sympathy of the bench by ahuMinnt the police. Fortunately the conitnblo has been able to obtain civilian witnesses to prove that the man hud boon injured before his arrest," '
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 4
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