IMPRISONMENT FOR ASSAULT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 20 September 1938, Page 14

IMPRISONMENT FOR ASSAULT

[CONSTABLE/ KICKED ''WH.EN MAKING ARREST

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WELLINGTON, September 10. ' Robert Joseph Reardon, a labourer, |aged!23,. pleaded nbt~ guilty to a charge [of assaulting John Bruce Murphy, and 'Constable A.-*T*.Ansell>in the execu-i-tion of his"iduty; when he-appeared in 'the -Magistrate's Court this morning. ' Murphy lives in the flat underineath' Reardon, described Reardon rurwJngiupC'tbe stairs oh the night of September 17,. and next, seeing him on -the--verandah witness's windows,,-Witness, and his daughter were showered -with -glass from the mainV-door panel; ,- Reardon- called to {oemsto come 'put,,or-he ;"would shoot .theVlbt of thehl"- v Ke switched oft the lights and earner ; ~ Witness andihislbrother; then chased ißeardon.'awLJflnally- caught him, a .struggle taking-plfice. among the litter iot glass. -Reardon fell five* or six-feet down.»a bank and'had to be dragged [back. 1 -: ;He seemed in" a 'iiniKl r -state, cauwfd by drink,' although'/hef did; not seem'drunk when'first .seen. ; • The* charge- f with reference \'to."the ■^Ffe blei wr?je'#o«n Beairdontf.-kicli-- - -' 'JBlF****" constable*when.ah'arrest 'was 1 '^5SM5#*AC«?*•»"«• «* .which.- '.was; ' * "-'iWW'vH'-V'. "■/, . ", ..-V . ■ .'< i 3*»V to t£at ","'- 3te..flefendanfc-wasithe'party : :-whO: wjaa; rTJeaten'.up.'U,?. «'-'•." .-' " ■■' \-« .Reardon ■ *»»., convicted and i. sent • - oc *g_^- P 11 * m impriaonment cm.