Constable Beaten Up At Noisy Party

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29984, 20 November 1962, Page 21

Constable Beaten Up At Noisy Party

(New Zealand Pres* Association)

WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. A policeman stationed at Wellington Central, Constable R. Adams, was viciously assaulted, beaten up, and hit with a keg in a house at Sieverston terrace on Friday night. Two men, arrested over an earlier escapade, are being questioned regarding the assault. Constable Adams was taken to the Wellington Hospital, but discharged after an X-ray. He received heavy bruising to the face and back. Shortly after 9 p.m. the police were called to intervene at a noisy party in Sieverston terrace. Considerable damage had been done to property in the house and the revellers were asked to leave. It was while he was interviewing one of the occupants that Constable Adams was attacked by two persons.

He was thrown to the ground, kicked, stamped on, and punched. One of the assailants grabbed a full 4}-gallon keg of beer and lifting it above his head, crashed it down on the prostrate policeman. Fortunately Constable Adams was conscious enough to deflect the keg with his foot Left On Floor Constable Adams was left lying on the floor and the assailants made oft. The injured policeman subsequently recovered and managed to stagger to his patrol car and drive oft in search of the assailants. Meanwhile, the man who had asked the police to intervene at the party telephoned again to report that the constable had been assaulted. Another patrol car immediately left for the house and found Constable Adams in his car. He was rushed to hospital.