CONSTABLE ASSAULTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 11

CONSTABLE ASSAULTED

NOSE BROKEN BY SUDDEN BLOW. WELDER SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. When requested by a police constable in Courtenay Place to move on, Douglas Haig Snowball, welder, aged 21. struck the constable in the face and broke his nose. He then resisted arrest. He appeared in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment by Mr J. H. Luxford. S.M. Snowball pleaded guilty to assaulting Constable E. J. White while in the execution of his duty and also admitted resisting arrest. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of using obscene language. Accused was under the influence of liquor in Courtenay Place on January 14, said Constable White in evidence. When asked to move on he would not do so and became abusive. ’He hit me on the face unexpectedly,” said witness, whose nose was broken. I got hold of him then, and he struggled. A large crowd gathered, but I finally got him into a taxi and took him to the police station.” “You are a young man and you have been before the court before in connection with liquor offences,’. said the magistrate to Snowball. “You have got to learn to restrain yourself.’,’ Snowball was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for assaulting the constable and was convicted and discharged on the other charges.