ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18323, 15 February 1934, Page 7

ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE

YOUNG MEN GAOLED ■1 - ■ INCIDENT AT BEACH ' . . . - ... * (Per Press Association.) • / - DUNEDIN, this day. f “A deliberate and persistent assault,’ was,how the magdstrate, Sir. J. R. Bartholomew, characterised an offence which led to the appearance in the Police Court yesterday oi three young men who were charged on remand with assaulting Constable Croraie in the execution of his The accused were Thomas Joseph Daly, Arthur Francis Keau and Douglas Gordon Pannell. Daly and Kean were also chayged with using obscene language. The charges, to which the accused pleaded guflty, related to happenings at St. Hilda beach last Saturday afternoon, when the accused, after using bad language, assaulted the constable, ' The magistrate said: “It has been urged that the • men were under the influence of liquor, but offences are frequently committed under the influence of liquor. The place where two of the men used obscene language of an ugly nature was *ar bathing shed on a beach. The constable very properly checked them for using- the language, and then these' young men, knowing that he was a constable, committed a deliberate and persistent assault, in the course of which the'constable was considerably injured.” In cases of assault on a constable, the public interest had to be safeguarded. Dn the charge of using obscene language. Daly and Kean were each fined £2, in default Reven days’ imprisonment, and on the chJtfge of assault each of the accused \Tflas, sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labor.