‘POLICE—HELP!”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 361, 16 February 1937, Page 4

‘POLICE—HELP!”

NEW YEAR SENSATION.

Borough Inspector Alleges Serious Assault.

Reporting to the Borough Council last night, Mr. A. Sayers, borough inspector, referred to a sensational happening in the early hours of New Year’s Day, during which, as the result of his effort to prevent a serious tragedy, he alleges he was brutally assaulted. j Mr Sayers' report stated:— “On New Year’s morning, at 2 o’clock, after ail the traffic had quietened down, I was about to finish work, and vtien at Regan Street and Broadway a car was parked acros-s the middle ot the road In Regan Street. I was getting this car sblfted | from the middle of the road when some women started screaming, and then a man ran down Regan Street and asked me to go round the corner, as two men were killing a woman. 1 did not take much notice of this unft I taw a man in his night clothes ruf ning down the street calling "Police’ and '‘Hfelp.’’ Thinking something was seriously the matter, I went to Portia Street and met his wife on the tootpath in her night gown. I was asking her what was the matter when I was pulled through her gateway backwards. I was hit in the face as I fell, and was very much kicked about the face and body, causing a black eye and damage to my ribs, “I informed a Constable, and laid a charge ot assault against the man who was responsible.”