A BOOBY BOBBY.

NZ Truth, Issue 91, 16 March 1907, Page 5

A BOOBY BOBBY.

HE COCKED A DEAF 'UN.

Dr McArthur's Straight Talk.

Wellington lays claim te the fact that it possesses some of the brightest, and brainest and tactful policemen that ever yet adorned a metropolitan police , force. A beautiful specimen of the bright bobby came under Dr. McArthur's attention at the S.M.s Court on Thursday moming, and it looks as if to get a gleam of intelligence from this same bright specimen a sharp, cold axe would have to be utilised. Of course the cop m question, one Hodson, is young, and Has a long way to go ere he reaches the 1 pinnacle of police promotion, and, incidentally, he has yet a lot to learn m the way of what a policeman ought to do. It was while strolline; ialong Lambton Quay last Wednesday evening that the young officer came on the not too common spectacle of a sweet young thing of 20 •or thereabouts bashing a bloke for all she was worth. Then the "foorce" acted. It pinched both the girl and the bloke, and they spent a night m the cells prior to bowing to the Beak the next morning. Then Hodson told his terrible tale of a street scrap, and Sub-Inspector o 'Donovan wanted to know if either; of the pair gave an account of their curious conduct, the copper hummed and had and couldn't be prevailed upon to open his mouth till the Magistrate bounced him, and then the noor policeman, murmured that he did not take much notice of what they said. Ye gods ;! and a policeman's first duty is to keep his ears open at all times, no matter what his mouth is doing.

Mr Herdman appeared . for the woman, 'but he could not make much impression on, the "cop," and when told that the girl had' been insulted by a man, and that that man would not leave her alone, and for ' her own protection she had stouched him, he could pnlvsay "I never heard it."

Dr. Me Arthur : Surely, you can tell, us more about it ?-^I had just come on the scene and did not see the start of it. . >

"Why didn't' vbu ask her why she was behaving m that manner. She might have been ' defending herself from the biggest, ruffian m town, and you arrest both of them. The case is dismissed," concluded the Magistrate.