GUNS DRAWN
NEWCASTLE POLICE MENACED BY GROWD IN BETTING RAID FIERCE TUSSLE ENSUES . Newcastlei, Sat. Seeing Sergeant Hungerford being menaced by a group of angry men, Constahle Ashton was forced to draw his revolver on them at Broadmeadow ( this after'ndon. The affair developed from a starting pfidh hetting raid which resultea in a fierde tussle between thd police and some men. Three arrests have been made and more are expected within the next 24 hours. A crowd of about 300 watched th'e meleb dn. a footpatK at Brdadmeadow about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Sergeant Hungerford, in plainclothes, had entered a hotel ,and arrfested a man whop he was escorting to the police car when a crowd followed ahd a nian sWUng at the sergeant, who was then set upon by a group of men. As soon as he attempted to defend himself, a figh't ensued and the sergeant t^as being knocked about wlien. PlainclotheS Gonstabies Ashton, rushed tip' with drawn r evoiver arid forced • the crowd to give way. ' With hlood streaming from his face Sergeant Hungerford bundled his p'risoners into the cafi and drove them to police Headquartefs; 1 The man arr&sted in the hotel was
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 423, 6 January 1933, Page 2
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