STREET FRACAS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11163, 20 March 1922, Page 5

STREET FRACAS

DISABLED SOLDIER AND POLICE. AN EXCITING INCIDENT. There were many exciting momenta in a street fracas that occurred between a native returned soldier with a wooden leg and two policemen at the corner of Manners and Cuba streets at about 5 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. It appears that the man, who was reported to bo in a state of drunkenness, was ordered off a tram car in the vicinity. He was put under arrest, but the police found it necessary to manacle him, and to convey him to the police station in a taxi. A crowd had gathered, and watched the struggle between the man and the police. He was powerfully built, and, despite hi 9 physical affliction, exhibited great strength. Inquiry at the Taranaki street police station last night elicited the information that the police considered it necessary to Tate what action they did. The man was. still in the cePe, and would be charged with drunkenness this morning. “We have had several inquiries about this man’s case to-day,” said the officer spoken to last night.