Plucky Policeman

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 5

Plucky Policeman

FURIOUS ENCOUNTER WITH A CRIMINAL.

CONSTABLE ROUGHLY HANDLED By

BYSTANDERS.

By Cabie—Press Association—Copyright Received 22, 12.15 a.m. Sydney, June 21. A plain-clothes constable endeavored

to arrest Driscoll, wanted for housebreaking. A fierce struggle ensued. A I>\ stander rushed to Driscoll's.assistancß, who succeeded in escaping. The constable fired three shots, each taking effect in Driscoll's shoulder, but the latter only increased' his speed. The constable overtook him, and another desperate struggle took place, Dtiscoll fighting furiously. Two other men attacked the constable, and dragged him off the prisoner and hurled him against the fence. They pinned him down, and roughly handled him. A little girl stepped up, and said, "Shall I ring for the police?" The constable replied, "Go, quick." The child obeyed. One of his assailants remarked, "1 don't know whether you're a policeman, but will keep you till the police arrive." in response to the girl's call, the police arrived and arrested Driscoll's assailants.. Driscoll meanwhile had disappeared, but was subsequently traced by bloodstains to a puolic lavatory, where he again fought furiously, but was eventually overpowered and placed in hospital in a serioiis condition.