SENSATIONAL FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1625, 17 December 1912, Page 8

SENSATIONAL FIGHT.

POLICE & SUSPECT. A WEIRD TIME AT NEWTOWN. Several membors of the Wellington South police force had a wild and slrango experience yesterday. The liouscof Mr. William Joseph Davis, situated in Baylis Terrace, off Hutchinson Read, Newtown, was broken into some tinio during the day while the occupants wei-o nwny at Island Bay. Tho jiolico state that entry to the house was ofleclod by cutting a puno of glass out; of one of tho front windows. A fiiiit of clothes and a lady's gold watch wore stolen. The suspect discardoil his old clothes, and arrayed himself in tho now garments. Tfo subsequently, returned to tho premises, and l.'ho police wen quickly on his track. Sergeant Mathcfion and Constable Taylor traced thojr quarry, but effecting an arrest was not as easy n task as they linlioiimled. In fact, when tho polico enmn on tho w.ene tho "fun" commenced. Tho mini is mated lo havo feigned madness, Jfii fought tho two polico officers hard, and shrieked like ono demented. Ills idll'lc'ks brought a crowd of onlookers from I.lki main thoroughfare a couple of hundred yards away. Nothing would induce him to miibmit to arrest. The police worn forced lo "scrap" him. They threw Mm, hehl him down, and bound him hand and fool, Then they got him to lllii Wellington South polico (station. At (ho police station his violence in-Wii-ied. "Ho wan tho most violent man 1 dvnr saw," Kiu'd Sergeant Mwthcson. "I have never noon anything to equal it. Before wo could Kiiccocd in getting tho nliilmi properly wo had to take clothing off him by main force." Tim wiiliih was secreted in tho man's iihli'l, Viml when It mis discovered ho foilglll. lillM.l 'o retain possession. Eventually ho jimnshed it, and then the police Iwirl lo (lrnif it from him bit, by bit. "lie in not very big," added the serpoint, "but, my goodness, he is tough. Ho ia tho most troublesome character over I handled."