CONSTABLE STRUCK

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 6

CONSTABLE STRUCK

GAOL SENTENCE FOLLOWS

Pleading guilty to assaulting Constable D. B. T. Harvey in the execution of his duty, and to fighting in Swan Lane, Patrick Lynch, alias Henry Lynch, alias Dan Mayo, a seaman, aged 29, appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.

Sub-Inspector D. A. McLean said that some weeks ago the other man involved in the fight had been dealt with. At about 3.30 p.m. on March 24 the constable was called to a fight in the backyard of a hotel. A large crowd had gathered. The constable treated the matter as he would an ordinary fight between two men, but the accused seized the constable's coat, tore it, and struck the officer in the face, breaking his false teeth. He then made his escape, and had only been arrested yesterday in Lyttelton. The accused said that there had been four or five men in the fight. His own teeth had been knocked out. He was' very drunk at the time. Evidence given by Sergeant J. Mo Kee, who saw the incident, was that the accused had had liquor, but could not have been arrested on, a charge of drunkenness. On the assault charge, the accused was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour, and on the other he was convicted and discharged-1