A CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12863, 23 May 1905, Page 3

A CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.

Per Press Association.

Auckland, Ma^.22

(*ons table MVClovern. whilst on duty at Pukekohe on Saturday night between eleven and twelve o'clock, had occasion to j warn some yoinrgi men, and one of them nam«*d I3dwar<3 Wilkmson, it is alleged, madcj use of abusive language. The constable attempted to arrest him. but the m)aH, it is asserted, got Constable McGovern down, and beat him on the back of the head with *a stone, ' so that he was unable to effect his arrest. The | constable called on otKer young men in j the King's name to assist him, but they did not respond. On hearing [footsteps apiproaching they] all dejcamfpeid. Constable - Waterman, stationed at iMercer, / effected the arrest of fWlilMnson, and the prisoner was charged to-day witK being drunk and disorderly, and withj resisting Con- [ stable ITcGotvern in the execution" of his I dhrtjy. |He was remanded , for eight days. Two , otter arrests have since been made.