CONSTABLE ASSAULTED
GREY’TOWN INCIDENT CONVICTION BY JURY (Tor Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Kenneth Sullivan, a labourer, aged 24 years, and Charles de la Cour, a motor mechanic. aged 20 years, were convicted in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday of - assaulting Constable A. Gregor, at Grevtown. cn June 27. They were remanded for sentence. It was alleged that while the ccr.-r-table tvan patrolling the town received a message from.his daughter that two men at his homo wanted to give a man i.n the lock-up some cigarettes. As he approached the station, he spoke to two men. who he had, warned to get out of town.
In avoiding a blow by Sullivan, he tripped and fell and was set upon by the men. When the constable called- out to a friend nearby, the men disappeared. Next morning de In Cour was found in a railway carriage at Wopdside and Sullivan asked the constable, who was looking for him with a car, for a lift and was arrested, Mr. Justice Reed presided. The jury was out for 35 ‘minutes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 11
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