BESISTS ARREST

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 6

BESISTS ARREST

'POLICE'.-ILL-TREATMENT .ALLEGED. (Per Prtos Association—-Copyright.). ; MASTERTON, August 23, " ; Allegations of > assault and< il]-treat- , ment by members of the police force ;'were made in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when Charles ' William Wilson iwas charged with being found, drunk j in a public place, using obscene language, arid resisting arrest. The public ; gallery was crowded, and there were ninny sensations in the- case. After hearing lengthy evidence, Mr |H. P. Lawry, S.M., said there -was' ;some doubt about the drunkenness I charge, which be would dismiss'.- On the obscene language charge lie linedWilson £2 and costs. ' “The resisting arrest charge is, is m rich more, serious matter,” observed tlie/Magistral. “Whether Ire ..was? arrested rightly or wrongly it does not , give Li jiv > any reason to resist. L- : “T caiinot take it as being cstablished that/aVdeteetive-sergean't. struck him iii' the'Cye., There is no evidence but -Lis own tlmt'lic luuf tv b’lacltfoye, ; Tn Yiew of sustained resistance amj bis previous record,\J •must send him i.o sxaol.' 1 would make it six weeks, but for the fact that he has been in; hospital for some time. Twill sentence liirn to three weeks’ hard labour.:'” ' ft, was- alleged bv the defence that Wilson 4 was punched in the fare by Detective-Sergeant Kane, and • that Constable R,' Hill dislocated his elbow \vhejj Wilson refused to give up JJSO be bad in his possession.