POLICE v. PEOPLE.
" MOVE-ON " WRIGHT ONCE MORE.
Did He Deal with a Drunk?
A Matter for Further Investigation.
This paper is neither foolish nor simple enough as to take for granted everything that a drunken man sets forth. Drink distorts some people's imaginations. It makes mountains out of sand mounds on a beach, and ita aid to coloring up the savagery of an arresting slop would be material for a splendid article for "T-.uth" and it is just because "Truth" knows > of the unreliance to be placed on the stories of men who come to grief when drunk, that it does not take notice of them. However that may be, all drunken men are not liars, and frequent, too frequent, complaints have been made to this office of the brutality of bobbies to drunks m their ohar^e, so much so that it might not be out of nlace if a suggestion is made that some inquiry should be made into the allegations made against Constable Wright of- Mt Cook; by one Robert "Gordon, who, last Saturday evening, was arrested by Wright. Gordon's story is that he was under the influence of liquor and was arrested m Tara-naki-street.. He Was taken to Mt. Cook, and m the yard of that lock-up was brutally assaulted by being punched and kicked by Wright, who also declined to give him a drink of water When Gordon asked for it. Gordon's appearance, a bruised face, a barked nose, a swollen- eye. and cut forehead , speaJf volumes m SUPPORT OF HIS STATEMENT. Whether he met with an accident when drunk or whether it is as Gor-: don says that Wright dealt with him "Truth" won't venture to decide. This much of Gordon's statement must be further investigated. He says that more than one of the prisoners witnessed Wright's brutal attack on him, and these nersons should be enquired of, ■ and if their versions bear out the truth of Gordon's charge, then this policeman Wright must be prosecuted and kicked out of the force. It is notorious that the police occasionally deal with '.'drunks," and it would only be an act of common justice if these dealers with drunks Were severely dealt with themselves. • "Truth" trusts more will be heard of this matt/ and it accordingly uivites the .vuteaUon of ..Commissioner Dinnie to Gordon's allegations. .
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NZ Truth, Issue 143, 14 March 1908, Page 4
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388POLICE v. PEOPLE. NZ Truth, Issue 143, 14 March 1908, Page 4
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