EARLY MORNING CHASE
COMPLAINT AGAINST POLICE. MELBOURNE, June 23. The Acting Chief Commissioner of Police has before him an extraordinary complaint made by a firm of solicitors on behalf of* a citizen who was returning home in one of the .suburbs early on the morning of May 24. The citizen, who claims to be a total abstainer, was accosted by a man whom he says he took for a footpad. He ran away and was chased by the man, who turned out to be a constable. The latter handcuffed him, and on the way to the portico station, it is alleged, throw him down and ill-treated him. The man’s employers next day wrote to the sergeant in charge and asked for the name of the constable. A telephone message, which purported to come from the sergeant, indicated that the sergeant did not consider it his duty to supply the constable’s name, and added that the man was not in , fact arrested.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19348, 1 July 1925, Page 11
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