CONSTABLE KICKED
TRIED TO STOP FIGHT SEVERE EYE INJURY ASSAULTER HEAVILY FINED Kicking a policeman in the eye is not the cheapest form of entertainment in the world. Richard Thomas Jamieson, aged 22, indulged in it on Saturday, and was fined £25 at the Police Court to-day. Jamieson was charged with fighting in a public place, assaulting Constable Leslie Vial, and damaging a coat. Robert Emmett Jamieson, a brother of accused, was also charged, with fighting. Constable Vial, who appeared with bandages round head and eye, said that he saw some men fighting outside a hotel. Ho was in plain clothes at the time, but he told the men who he was. Robert Jamieson tripped him, and while he was down Richard Jamieson kicked him on the eye and mouth. The accused were captured after a chase.
Each of the accused were fined £2 for fighting, and Richard Jamieson was fined £25, in default two months’ imprisonment, for assaulting the constable. He was ordered to pay 17s 6d, the amount of damage to the coat.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 295, 5 March 1928, Page 1
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175CONSTABLE KICKED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 295, 5 March 1928, Page 1
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