“I THINK HE BROKE MY RIBS”
BRADLEY’S COMPLAINT AN UNBELIEVING COURT TTIS mate told him to kick me where there would be no marks. Daniel Bradley, looking worse for wear, did not resemble the Pied that the police said he was when Inappeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M., and pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunkenness. “How do you plead?” Bradley was “Guilty? Guilty? I was as sober as I am now,” he said. A constable said he saw Bradley in Durham Street on Saturday, and he was so drunk that a crowd was following: him. Bradley’s version was that he walked across the street and the constable kicked him. “I think he broke my ribs,” said Bradley, “just look at this.” A trouser leg was rolled up, and a shin, showing an. indefinite bruise was exposed. “Look at that —I think I’ve broke a rib.” “When the constable took me his mate said, ‘Kick him where there will be no marks.’ ” Sub-Inspector Lewin said that Bradley had a list. He was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 75, 20 June 1927, Page 1
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