CONSTABLE HAD HARD STRUGGLE.
MAORI REFUSED TO SUBMIT TO ARREST. Per Press Association. HAW ERA, January 6. Having been caught in the act of stealing a loaf of bread from a Normanby bakehouse about noon yesterday, Billy Kapa, a Maori, was chased half a mile down a back road before Constable Pidgeon managed to catch up to him. Kapa, on being accused of the theft, refused to accompany the constable, and said: “It’s you and I for it.” Then for fully half an hour the constable had a desperate struggle on the roadside with the man before he could be handcuffed. This morning Kapa, who has had thirty-five convictions since 1911, including several for violently resisting the police, was fined £lO, in default two months for resisting arrest, and convicted and discharged for fhe theft of the bread. He consented to take out a prohibition order for twelve months.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 7
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