A COWARDLY BLOW
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A CONSTABLE'S ASSAILANT GIVEN TWO MONTHS IN GAOL A LIVELY MELEE
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Christchurch, Tuesday. "You struck the -constable what I can only characterise as a cowardly blow. Had you not taken him unawares I am satisfied you would never have struck him," declared the Magistrate, Mr. Mosley, in sentencing James Halkett (25), a labourer to two months' hard labour for assaulting Constable Stewart in St. Asaph Street. Halkett also was sentenced to 14 days' for obscene language. The assault occurred after the accused had been arrested and while the constable was entering a name in his pocket book. Witnesses described the scene that followed as a "regular donnybrook" which ended in the constable sitting on the accused with blood flowing from the constable's nose and eye.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 5
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133A COWARDLY BLOW Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 5
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