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ACCUSED MAN ASSAULTED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 9.Detective William Robert Cooper was to-day sued for £2B damages by Henry Mornington Smith, a seaman, for injuries sustained in an unprovoked assault by Cooper. The Magistrate gave judgment for Smith for £l5 with £3/3/6 medical .expenses, and costs amounting to £B. Cooper had recently been found guilty at a police enquiry on the charge of assault, and fined £2. Cooper was stated to have taken Smith to a room in the Taranaki Street Police Station, after questioning him in the street, and to have then punched him on the mouth, necessitating three stitches in his lip. Cooper had accused Smith of knocking about with undesirable people when, in fact, Smith had only been ashore five hours.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1927, Page 11
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