ASSAULT ON POLICE
YOUNG MAN GAOLED (Por Press Association.* WELLINGTON, this day. John William Oompton, 24, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day for assaulting Sergeant Clearv. Evidence was given that a Chinaman complained that the accused had broken his window. Sergeant Geary took the accused to the police station, and while questioning the Chinese, the accused struck him 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 those circumstances is not to be tolerated," said the magistrate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 7
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