HELPING THE POLICE
DUTY OF CIVILIANS.
"It is the duty of every civilian to> help tho police, aad still more the duty of people who are the public conveyors of passengers," remarked Mr. C. R. Orr Wjilker, S.M., when Oswald Sydney Griiham, a taxi-driver, was charged, at the Magistrate's Court to-day with failing to assist the police when called upon. The evidence snowed that the defendant refused to assist Constable Armiger, who wms endeavouring to put an intoxicated parson in the defendant's taxi. ! Defendant said he did not refuse to, convoy the constable's prisoner. His Worship: "You didn't refuse^ a chance to collect a foe." "I couldn't go into n, fight on account of a strain 1" received at the war," ex-.| plained the defendant. "You could have done more than you did," retorted his Worship. "ftf you bad released the prisoner's haniJa from the rail it would have enabled Hie constable to put him in." I The Magistrate' imposed a nominal' penalty of £1.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 3
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HELPING THE POLICE
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 3
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