Search For Men Who Attacked Constable

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 13

Search For Men Who Attacked Constable

tNew Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, June 7. Detectives searching for the three men who attacked Constable D. P. Pomeroy at Drury early this morning had made no arrest late tonight '* Constable Pomeroy had his head held under the waters of a swollen creek in a struggle with the men about 3.30 a.m Minutes earlier he had chased the men. whom he saw coming out of a window of the Drury Post Office. Constable Pomeroy cornered the three men after a quarter of a mile chase beside a creek. The men refusd to give themselves up. and ' the constable leapt across the ereek to tackle them The men met him on a steep bank, forcing him back into the waist-deep water. In a desperate struggle before they made off. the men held Constable Pomeroy under the water several times.

In bed at his home this morning Constable Pomeroy said he was in the Papakura police station about 3 a.m when he was warned something might be wrong at the Drury Post Office. Arriving there be stopped a passing .motorist to get him to watch the front while he inspected the back, but the man refused Then there was the crash of glass from the back and bree m»n dashed down a side road. Constable Pomeroy said the motorist still refused to help him and he went after the men alone.

Constable Pomeroy said: “It sure was a hectic fight while it lasted. “One of them was on my back and bore me down. Another was hitting at me.

“1 Lashed back. They shoved me under. I managed to get my head clear and they shoved me under again. “I was getting pretty weak by this time. "I went limp, and they let me go and scrambled out of the creek and ran off into the darkness," he said. A police search failed to find the men. Nothing was taken from the post office.