AN OBSTREPOROUS SEAMAN. Savage Assault upon Sergeant Clarke. Auckland, Jan. 19.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 January 1884, Page 6

AN OBSTREPOROUS SEAMAN. Savage Assault upon Sergeant Clarke. Auckland, Jan. 19.

A most savage assault was perpetrated upon Sergeant A. Clarke, of the water police, this afternoon by a seaman named Michael Dugan, belonging to the ship Turakina, whom he was arresting. Early in the afternoon it was reported to Sergeant Clarke that this man was absent without leave. He came upon him at the end of the wharf, surrounded by a crowd, and using very foul language. The chief officer of the Turakina was passing at the time, and he gave the fellow in charge. Sergeant Clarke proceeded to arrest the man, when a desperate struggle ensued, lasting for upwards of fifteon minutes. Eventually the sergeant succeeded in handcuffing his prisoner. Dugan kicked him on the ear, and otherwise assaulted him, causing a nasty bruise on one side of the head, and other injuries. Constables Keen and Luke Macdonald then came up, and assisted to convey the man to tno station. He has been charged ( 1 ) with a breach of the Seaman's and Shipping Act, (2) breach of the Vagrant Act, and (3) with assault. Dugar, during the voyage from England, prqved himself a bad character and had to be placed in irons.

Brownson : " Well, I always make it a rule to tell my wife everything that happens." Smithkins : " On, my dear fellow, that's nothing. I tell my wife lots of things that never Tiappened at all,"