DETECTIVE PAYS SEAMAN DAMAGES
AN UNPROVOKED ASSAULT Press Association. WELLINGTON, Friday. Detective William Robert Cooper was to-day sued for £26 damages by Henry IVlornington Smith, a seaman, for injuries received in an unprovoked assault by Cooper. The magistrate gave judgment for Smith for £ls, with £3 13s 6d medical expenses, and costs amounting to £B. Cooper had recently been found guilty at a police inquiry on a charge of assault, and fined £2. Cooper was alleged to have taken Smith to a room in the Taranaki Street police station, after questioning him in the street, and then to have punched him in the mouth, necessitating three stitches in his lip. The detective also accused Smith of knocking about with undesirable people, when in fact he had only been ashore five hours.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 9
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131DETECTIVE PAYS SEAMAN DAMAGES Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 9
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