POLICEMAN ATTACKED
FIGHT IN LYTTELTON ‘MOST BRUTAL ASSAULT” Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Sydney Ernest Jamieson, a seaman, was to-day sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for brutally assaulting a constable, Edward Arthur Irwin. When Jamieson appeared at the Lyttelton Police Court this morning. Constable Irwin said that last evening he had occasion to arrest for drunkenness a man named Thomas O’Shea. Accused drew up from behind and struck witness behind the ear. Jamieson immediately assaulted him repeatedly by striking him about the jaw, neck and throat. Witness considered it was the most brutal assault he had ever experienced as a policeman in Lyttelton. O’Shea also assaulted him. and had it not been for a total stranger who came to his assistance he would not have been able u» manage both men.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 13
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130POLICEMAN ATTACKED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 13
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