NEVER TOO OLD TO FIGHT
THE POLICEMAN’S FRIEND ‘lf ever I see a policeman endangered by a hostile crowd, I shall sail in to his assistance, though I am 75,” says Charles Myers of London, whose hobby all his life has been helping policemen in distress. The latest of 31 presentations to him is an inscribed gold watch for succouring an East End policeman who was trying to arrest three violent drunks singlehanded. Myers, who is short and thick-set, with blue eyes, says: “I can look after myself, don’t forget it. Once five ■ burglars rushed out of a house. I got in their way. One shouted out, ‘Hit him,’ but I kicked one in the ankle, hit , the second on the jaw with a mallet . and then punched the third on the jaw. I only went down when I" was hit with a jemmy.” ■ “My. first assistance to the police was rendered in, 1891, when I tracked a man suspected of stabbing 100 girls. I saw him stab on£, and grabbed him and shouted for the police. The criminal was ascertained to be insane, and was detained at the King’s pleasure. “The Police Chief gave me a police ; civilian per-
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 11
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