A CONSTABLE ATTACKED.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1919, Page 5

A CONSTABLE ATTACKED.

WHILST ARRESTING A-MAORI. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night One of the most disgraceful incidents in Wanganui for a considerable time past occurred in the Avenue late this afternoon, when a constable endeavored to arrest a returned Maori soldier, who was refused admission to an hotel. The Maori forcibly resisted, and a big crowd, which included a number of other Natives, quickly assembled. The constable clivg to his man, but was much' hampered by a section of the crowd, which had the appearance of a human whirlpool eddying round a storm centre. Another Maori, egged on by the crowd, rushed in and got Constable O'Donoghue by the throat. The constable managed to free himself and commandeer a private motor car, into which he tried to put the Maori, Appeals for assistance wen unheeded for some time, but even* tually a bystander came forward, and another constable arrived. A European in soldier's uniform mounted the footboard of the car and threatened the driver with {violence if he did not drive on. At the same time a pleasant-faced, totund Maori was trying to cut one of the back tyres with a knife. The prisoner was eventually placed in the lockup, and, later on, two other Maoris Were lodged in the cells charged with obstructing the police.