ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.
WATERSIDE WORKER SENT tO GAOL. - , (Per United-Press Association.) r WELLINGTON, February 25. The police are charged with the duty of maintaining order, and they have to exercise considerable forbearance at timee. Where there is a concerted assault made, as in a case like this, I cannot deal leniently with the matter.” So saying. Air T. B. M'Neil, S.M., sent James O’Neill, aged 32, a waterside worker to gaol foe a month for assaulting Constable Ritchie and resisting arrest. The charge against Hugh Tanner of assaulting Sergeant Edwards- was dismissed, the magistrate considering that there was just a reasonable doubt that the blow was an accidental one. The affair arose from some rough play by a crowd after a dance, requiring police intervention
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 10
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125ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 10
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