TROOPERS IN TROUBLE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 6

TROOPERS IN TROUBLE

CONSTABLE ATTACKED

HANDCUFFED TROOPER

ESCAPES

Four troopers appeared before Mr. D. 6. A. Cooper, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday to answer various charges. Their names t were: William Anderson, charged with obstruotinp Constable Frost; Arthur Jones, similarly charged; Richard Healy, additionally charged with resisting. Constable Tocker, besides the charge of obstructing ; and Eugene Thos. Swetnam, charged (1) with inciting Jones and Healy to resist Constable Tocker, (2) with assaulting Constable Frost. All pleaded not guilty. ' From the evidence of the constables concerned it appeared that at about 8 o'clock Constable Frost received _ a complaint that some troopers were in-, suiting some women in Vivian' Street. •When Constable Frost came on the scene he found Healy and Swetnam sitting in the gutter. Constable Frost asked for their leave passes, and one of the troopers near by attacked him with a bayonet. Constable Frost disarmed him before he oould do , any harm and handcuffed him. By . this time a big crowd had gathered and some of tie troopers endeavoured to release the arrested man. Constable Frost was hustled and kicked, and Healy struck him on the head:- Then it was that the handcuffed man got away. Constable Tocker oame to the reiscue and arrested Healy, and later Constable Wilson arrived. On the way to the station there was a lot of hooting, resistance, and obstruction' and as a result Anderson, Jones, and Swetnam were arrested. "Have you any question to aßk, Healy?" said the Magistrate. Healy, however, had, little to say. The , Magistrate intimated that he would convict the four and order them to be handed over to the military authorities., . , ' ' Inspector Hendrey said that damage had been done to the uniform of one of the constables, while there were the handouffs, which were missing. He asked that the four accused be made to pay for these. The Magistrate ordered the four men. to pay for the damage done.