TELL-TALE WOUNDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17461, 12 February 1925, Page 5

TELL-TALE WOUNDS.

ARRESTS AT A HOSPITAL. FIGHT WITH CONSTABLE. j SYDNEY. February l. A savage attack on a constable hi \\ oolioomooloo yesterday afternoon, when three prisoners were taken from liiin and his baton was broken, was followed by dramatic arrests at Sydney Hospital last night. A dozen men and a woman weie causing a. disturbance in .Judge Street, and Constable M'Master, of Darlinghurst, advised them to go away. Three men immediately charged at him ; one kicked him on the knee, while two others struck him on the head with their fists. The constable went down., but regained his feet again, and arrested (wo men. He was rushed once more, and his captives were snatched away. In endeavouring to keep back his assailants, M’Master ruined his baton. However, be. managed to arrest a third man. bill there was another onslaught, and this prisoner wriggled along the ground under a. stationary taxicab and escaped. ACT 11. The second act of (he play wa=; staged at the Sydney Hospital. Constable Higlett was on duty al the casualty ward last, night, and he asked a patient how he had come to receive an injury over the eye. Tie replied that he had been struck with a policeman’s baton. Higlett put- the man

ur.dcr arrest until M’Master and tin* patrol arrived. Immediately lie reached the hospital, M'Master arrested a young man outside the ward, evidently one of the injured man’s friends. He was handcuffed ami was made to sit down inside the ward. In the meantime, however, the first, prisoner was treated, and. evading ii.*; policemen, who were engaged in quietening other men outside, ho walked around a seldom used drive to the entrance gates to the hospital. Constable Higlett set out in pursuit, and caught him before he got to Macquarie Street The. pai r were then removed in the patrol waggon. Convalescent patients from one of the wards were spectators of the wholc% exciting episode.