ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE
TWO MEN GAOLED INCIDENT AT GREY TOWN (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Found 1 guilty by a jury on a charge of assaulting Constable A. Gregor at Greyitown and causing him actual ■bodily harm. Kennebh Sullivan, a labourer, aged 24, and Charles Do La Cour, a motor mechanic, aged 30, appeared for sentence before Mr. Jusre Reed in the Supreme Court yesterday. Sullivan was sentenced to 18 monlths’ hard labour and De La Cour 12 months’ bard labour. His Honour said the constable was jrutally assaulted and might have yvkilled as a re:uii, of the attack. ■; crowding to the evidence, the prisoners had gone to tire constable’s use and arranged with his dau.gher to communicate with her father. They waited for the constable when ie was coming home in order to attempt whatever they wanted done. Without any reason at ail, and while act under the influence of liquor, i,’.though their actions might have been the result of after-effects, they brutally assaulted him. He was an elderly man and was struck over the :ead and suffered cuts and bruises.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 15
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183ASSAULT ON CONSTABLE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 15
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