ATTACK ON CONSTABLE
Two Men Convicted By Jury Kenneth Sullivan, labourer, aged 24, and Charles de la Cour, motor mechanic, aged 30, were convicted-in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, of assaulting Constable A. Gregor in Greytown on June 27. They were remanded for sentence. It was alleged that while the constable was patrolling the town he received a message from his daughter that two men at his home wanted to give a man in the ioek-up some cigarettes. As he approached the station he spoke to two men he had warned to get out of town. Avoiding a blow by Sullivan, he tripped and fell and was set upon by the men. When the constable called out to a friend nearby the men disappeared. Next morning de la Cour was found in a railway carriage at Woodside, and Sullivan asked a constable who was looking for him with a car for a lift and was arrested. Mr. Justice Reed presided. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr, W. H. Cunningham, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J. D. Willis had been assigned to the defence of de la Cour. Sullivan was not represented by counsel, but made a short statement from the dock. The jury was out for 35 minutes.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 6
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206ATTACK ON CONSTABLE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 6
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