CONSTABLE ASSAULTED
CHARGE AGAINST SEAMAN SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 18. Pleading guilty to assaulting Constable D. B. T. Harvey in the execution of his duty and to fighting in Swan lane, Patrick Lynch alias Henry Lynch alias Dan Mayo, aged 29 years, a seaman, appeared today before Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M. Sub-inspector Mac Lean said that some weks ago the other man involved in the fight had been dealt with. About 3.30 p.m. on March 24 the constable was called to a fight in the backyard of an hotel. A large crowd had gathered. The constable treated the matter as he would an ordinary fight between two men, but the accused seized the constable's coat, tore it, and struck the officer in the face, breaking his false teeth. He then made his escape, and was not arrested until yesterday in Lyttelton. The accused said there had been four or five men in the fight. His own teeth had been knocked out. He was very drunk at the time. Sergeant McKee, who saw the incident, said that the accused had had liquor, but could not have been arrested on a charge of drunkenness. On the assault charge the accused was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and on the other charge he was convicted and discharged,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23504, 19 May 1938, Page 15
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