ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE.

Wairarapa Age, 15 February 1934, Page 5

ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE.

THREE MEN SENT TO GAOL IN DUNEDIN.

. DUNEDIN, February 14. “Deliberate and persistent assault,” was how the Magistrate (Mr. J. R. Bartholomew) characterised an offence which led to the appearance in the Police Court to-day of three young men charged on remand with assaulting Constable Cromie in the execution of his fluty. The accused were Thomas Joseph Daly, Arthur Francis Kean and Douglas Gordon Pannell. Daly and Kean were also charged with using obscene language. The charges, to which the accused pleaded guilty, related to happenings at St. Kilda Beach *last Saturday afternoon, when accused, after using bad language, assaulted the Constable. The Magistrate said it had been urged that the men were under the influence of liquor, but offences were frequently committed under the influence of liquor. The place where two of the men had used obscene language of an ugly nature was a bathing shed on the beach. The constable very properly checked them for using the language and then these young men, knowing that he was a constable, had committed a deliberate and persistent assault, in the course of which the constable was considerably injured. In cases of assault on a constable, the public interest had to be safeguarded. On the charge of using obscene language, Daly and Kean were each fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment, and on the charge of assault each of the accused was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour. -(P-A.)