WARNING MOTORISTS
MAN TELLS OF POLICE TRAP PROSECUTION FOLLOWS Press Association. WELLINGTON, Friday. Allegations by the police that Linsay Thomas Henry Valentine had been warning motorists that they were running into a police trap resulted in Valentine being charged at the court to-day with attempting to obstruct a constable in the execution of his dyty. Counsel for Valentine said that the court was being asked to say that if a man was about to commit a crime, to attempt to stop him was an offence against the police. The magistrate, Mr. E. Page, replied that that was not the case. The police were setting' Aip that the car was in fact committing a breach of the by-laws, and while the officers were endeavouring to obtain material to prosecute for that breach, Valentine endeavoured to stop the man, Mr. Page refused to dismiss the case as trivial, but said that if counsel wished to look into the legal authorities he would give him time. The case was adjourned till Tuesday. '
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 26
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169WARNING MOTORISTS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 26
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