SCUFFLE IN STREET
POLICE ATTACKED
GAOL SENTENCES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
For obstructing a constable and assaulting a civilian, Francis Wendell George, aged 21, was sentenced in the Police Court today to six weeks' imprisonment, and Clarence Perry, aged 24, for obstructing a constable and assaulting another constable, was sentenced to three months. They both pleased guilty. The police said that George and Perry obstructed a constable who was arresting a third man for drunkenness in a city street on Saturday afternoon. When a second constable arrived Perry kicked him three times in the ribs. The constable was now off duty with a fractured rib and an injured side.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 9, 11 July 1938, Page 13
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