STRUGGLE WITH POLICE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 6

STRUGGLE WITH POLICE

FOUGHT LIKE ANIMAL SYDNEY, Feb. 27. Central Police Station nas probably never shelterd so savage and maddened a prisoner as a man who, after fighting police for half an hour, was finally thrown into a cell by three constables. The man fought with the ferocity of an animal all the way from Reservoir Street to the station, being half-carried and half-dragged by exhausted police for over a mile. Constables Wiggins and Lynch, of Regent Street, came across the man behaving riotously on a street corner. He was docile enough while police talked to him, but the moment one of them laid a hand on his shoulder he went berserk. With a howl of rage, the prisoner, an ex-pugilist, who in his heyday was regarded as one of the "toughest' men in the game, threw himself at the constables. His first rush knocked them down, and' the three struggled for several minutes on the ground. Wiggins and Lynch were badly knocked about before they succeeded in getting their man into the dock' at the police station. While he was being charged the man leaped over the dock railings and landed heavily on Ills head; Even that did not upset him.