VIOLENT ASSAULT
CONSTABLE INJURED THREE MONTHS' GAOL (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Declining the advice twice preferred by Constable Sealey while on beat in Upper Queen street on Saturday afternoon, Harry Ronald Webb, aged 45, a labourer from the public works camp at Waiuku, followed the constable and struck him a blow which knocked him clown causing his head to strike the footpath resulting in concussion.
Accused pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to a charge of assaulting the constable while in the oecution of his duty.
Replying to the Magistrate, Mr. J. Morling, Webb said that drink was the cause.
“It was a violent and unprovoked assault,” said the Magistrate. “You are sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 8
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120VIOLENT ASSAULT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 8
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