INQUISITIVE CONSTABLE.
ARREST OF A MOTORIST. INCIDENT IN SYDNEY. Constable Graves, of Sydney, believes that it is part of a police,man’s duty to be inquisitive. Recently, when 'he noticed a motorist driving- along Parramatta Road with a Victorian number-plate on his machine he overhauled him and questioned him. The motorist was indignant. “I have just arrived in this city from Melbourne,” hei said. “I am a visitor, a tourist, just a traveller visiting this city, and you question me as if I was a—-as if you—er—suspected me.”
Constable Graves was very persistent, and the motorist became more indignant than ever when the policeman found a sawn- off rifle in the car. It was an ugly weapon, capable of'' inflicting a, shocking wound.
This discovery made the constable more inquisitive than ever, and finally the visitor is alleged to have admitted that he had stolen the car from outside the Victorian Parliament House, and had driven if. to Sydney. “I don’t know whose ear it is,” he is alleged to have said. “I just drive it away.”; He was taken to the police station and charged.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3891, 5 January 1929, Page 1
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185INQUISITIVE CONSTABLE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3891, 5 January 1929, Page 1
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