A SENSATIONAL ARREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 51, 22 June 1914, Page 5

A SENSATIONAL ARREST.

PLUCKY PLAIN-CLOTHES CONSTABLE IN DANCER. I lit Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Urano Peebb Association.] Sydney, June 21. A plain-clothes constable endeavored. to arrest Driscoll, wanted for house-breaking. A fierce struggle ensued. A bystander rushed to Driscoll’s assistance, who succeeded in escaping. The constable fired three shots, each taking effect in Driscoll’s shoulder, but the latter only increased his speed. The constable overtook him, and another desperate struggle 'tools place, Driscoll fighting furiously. Two other men attacked the constable, and dragged him off the prisoner and hurled him against the fence. They pinned him down, and roughly handled him. A little girl stepped up, and said, “Shall I ring for the police?” The constable 1 replied, “Go, quick.” The child obeyed.. One of his assailants remarked, “I don’t know whether you’re a policeman, but will keep you till the police arrive.” In response to the girl’s call, the police arrived and arrested Driscoll’s assailants. Driscoll meanwhile had disappeared, but was subsequently traced by bloodstains to a public lavatory, where he again fought furiously, but was eventually overpowered and placed in hospital in a serious condition.