BIT CONSTABLE IN STRUGGLE
Man Pleads Guilty, Fined £lO (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 2. “With 42 convictions you should have realised it is a good idea to keep out of trouble instead of going around town biting policemen,” Mr W. H. Carson, S.M., told Gordon Alexander Anderson, aged 43, unemployed, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington to behaving in a disorderly manner. The police prosecutor (Mr C. Rainey) said a constable saw Anderson swinging from a lamp post in Molesworth street. Anderson told the constable he had a wooden leg and was using the post as support. Mr Rainey said the constable later saw Anderson talking to his wife and mother in another part of the street. Anderson had pointed to the policeman and accused him of taking his money. He grabbed the constable, a struggle ensued, the two men fell to the ground and Anderson fastened his teeth in the constable’s arm—fortunately only the fabric of the uniform sleeve was bitten. Anderson was fined £lO, in default 10 days’ gaol.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29352, 3 November 1960, Page 21
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