WOMEN BEAT CONSTABLE
SHRIEKING AMAZON SITS ON HIS HEAD SHIRT TORN TO SHREDS (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) Received 10.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. Fifteen women, said to he the wives of timber workers, attacked a plainclothes constable outside the Caulfield mill. They knocked him down and belaboured him with umbrellas, shouting and shrieking. The women tore his shirt to shreds and fell on him. One Amazon, in the last round, sat on his head. Five hundred people looked on and laughed themselves to tears. They gave no help to the victim. Two uniformed policemen arrived and brandished their batons. They arrested five shrieking, hysterical women.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 9
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105WOMEN BEAT CONSTABLE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 9
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