POLICEMAN’S PERILS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17179, 24 October 1923, Page 7

POLICEMAN’S PERILS.

A MYSTERIOUS BRICK. ' About a week ago. a refractory j i “drunk” was arrested after a. big! j struggle by Constable R. .T. Hessell in j i the yard of the Club Hotel, Sydenham. | But the story did not end there, for ; the constable called for assistance from , a man in the yard, but the man did not hear him, go the constable had to i carry on in the law’s name unassisted, j To-day, tho man, whose name is ! Daniel Gunn, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with refusing to assist the constable in the execution of his duty, and further with assaulting him in the execution of his duty. To both charges he pleaded not guilty. Constable Hessell gave details of his struggle in arresting a man named O’Malley, and said he called upon Gunn to assist him. To this request Gunn replied, “.Not on j-our life.” Gunn then went next door* and a few momets later a brick was thrown over the fence, and it did \not miss his head by much. Gunn denied throwing the brick, and said that Hessell had never called upon him to give assistance. In any case he would not have been able io because he was “lime burnt” be-! tween the fingers. The Magistrate said the charges were } serious ones and if a conviction were ‘ entered imprisonment would bo the ; punishment. He did not think that ; the uncorroborated testimony of the constable was enough to prove the ! case, and the charges would be dis. I missed.