Seaman Imprisoned For Six Months For Assault

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28748, 20 November 1958, Page 20

Seaman Imprisoned For Six Months For Assault

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ifier he fell to the ground, kicked him several times in the body. Collins said in evidence he could not remember a fight, but he was sure that he would have been in .t if there was one. He knew nothmg until he awoke in hospital. Constable Polkinghorn said he arrived on the scene with Constable Anderson and found Col--ins lying unconscious on the ground. Peacock ran away, but -as arrested after a struggle and handcuffed by one hand to a garden seat beside the footpath. He '.ashed out with his feet and sra: at the police for the next few minutes while calling them rude names. A crowd of about 100 gathered. At this stage, Weir began to ash out at the policemen when asked to go to the police station. He was placed with difficulty in re patrol car and four policemen had trouble in putting Pea?>ck .n another car. Ryan was standing behind Constable Polkinghorn, but had done r.o harm other than to knock the rfhcer’s helmet askew. The police prosecutor, Mr F. O. Scott, said Peacocks’s favourite pastime seemed to be assaulting people. He had been at it regularly since he arrived in New Zealand five years ago. Sock barn Trunk Sewer.—The State Electricity Department has now agreed to the Christchurch Drainage Board’s SockDurn trunk sewer being taken along its transmission line reserve, which runs parallel to Blenheim road. Consent is subject to the board arranging certain indemnities.