ASSAULT ON POLICE.
NOT TO BE TOLERATED. MAN SENT TO GAOL. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 1. John William Compton, aged 24, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by Mr Barton, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for assaulting Sergeant Cleary. Evidence was given to the effect that a Chinaman complained that accused had broken his window. Sergeant Cleary took accused to the police station, and while questioning the Chinese accused struck the latter on the side of the face. The sergeant turned around and was then struck on the mouth by the accused. “An assault on the police under these circumstances is not to be tolerated,"’ said the Magistrate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 103, 1 April 1929, Page 6
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