CONSTABLE ASSAULTS CIVILIAN.
-1 4 AND IS EXONERATED. (By Telccranh.— Special CorrcEDonflonS./ Palmerston, May 12. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, E. M'Quenney sued Constable Martin, of Bongotea for .£5 damages for alleged assault. In evidence it was stated that en April 1 last M'Quenney had been made an "April fool," and, thinking to pass the joke on to Constable Martin, sent that official on an urgent message, to a business man in the township. When the constable found out how the position stood, he did not treat the matter as a joke. He went back and gave M'Quenney a thrashing. Hence the suit for damages. The magistrate said that the action of plaintiff, in making a fool of an important official, might have led to serious consequences, and gave judgment for defendant Martin.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 816, 13 May 1910, Page 6
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133CONSTABLE ASSAULTS CIVILIAN. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 816, 13 May 1910, Page 6
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