ATTACK UPON CONSTABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1934, Page 9

ATTACK UPON CONSTABLE

DRUNKEN SCOTTISH SEAMEN BRAWL ON A WHARF AT DUNEDIN. PORT HOBART CREW TAKES HAND RINGLEADERS LATER PUNISHED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, Sept. 10. Last night three drunken Scotsmen from the steamer Port Hffiart, resenting being spoken to by a constable when they were drinking and using obscene language on the wharf, attempted to throw him and a sergeant into the water. When a taxi arrived to take them to the police station the whole crew of the vessel turned out, informing the taximan that if he took a hand in the proceedings his car would go overboard. The driver wisely drove away and picked up as many police, reinforcements as he could find. The police finally subdued the principals and took them to the station. The prosecutor stated that if the sergeant had not come to the constable’s assistance and used his baton there would have been serious trouble. The offenders, Donald Martin, aged 25, George McKenzie, aged 22, and John McLeod, aged 25, were fined £3 and ordered to make good the damage done to the taxi and the policemen’s uniforms. A direction was given that they be detained till four o’clock in the afternoon, half an hour before the ship sailed.