DETECTIVE’S RIBS BROKEN

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1931, Page 5

DETECTIVE’S RIBS BROKEN

SCUFFLE WITH A GREEK. . NAPIER, July 28. “A wild hull on the prairies could not have given the police more trouble than,, this man did” remarked Detective Sergeant Fitzgibbons in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning, when a Greek named Con Pafiti, a labourer, aged twenty-five years, applied for ■bail having previously appeared on a charge of being idle and disorderly at Napier, in that he had insufficient means of support. The detective expressed the opinion that the man was not able to control himself, and that it was absolutely unsafe to allow him to roam round the streets, where young girls might be. For accused, Mr J. Mason applied for bail, and stated that accused had complained; that the police had handled him too roughly when arresting him. Detective Fitzgibbons “Well, I can show more bruises than he can.” It was further pointed out by the detective that he had had two- ribs broken in the scuffle and had sustained a number of bruises. Mr A. M. Mowlem. S.M. : The police are not here to receive broken ribs. The Detective: Certainly not, sir. Bail was eventually allowed; in self of £2OO and one surety of £2OO or two of £IOO. As a special condition the sureties were to justify themselves before his. Worship.