“Had Him by Throat”
CONSTABLE ACCUSED ARREST OF MOTORIST RESISTED Press Association. PAHIATUA, To-day. In the Pahiatua Police Court yesterday, before Mr. S. L. P. Free, S.M., Michael Francis Dillon was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a car, and assaulting and resisting the police. In connection with the same incident, Henry Dillon w*is charged with assaulting and obstructing the police; William A. Reid, with encouraging a person to obstruct the police; and Frederick Wright, with obstructing the police. On the night of June 9 Constable John Mclntosh stopped in Pongaroa township a car driven by Michael Dillon. He endeavoured to arrest him on a charge of being drunk while driving a car. Defendant resisted, and Henry Dillon, as well as Wright, came to help, Michael Dillon eventually getting away. Nineteen witnesses called for the defence said that Michael Dillon was sober. The other defendants declared that they interfered only because the constable had Dillon by the throat in the drain, choking him. Decision was reserved. The court was packed with onlookers, most of whom came over 40 miles from Pongaroa to hear the proceedings.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 393, 29 June 1928, Page 1
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