CONSTABLE STRUCK
POLICE STATION INCIDENT FORMER BOXER IMPRISONED”** (By Telpgraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday A blacksmith and former boxer, Eric Thomas Otway, aged 39, was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment by Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car at Glenfield, and on another charge of assaulting a constable. Otway pleaded guilty and his counsel expressed regret. The police said that while a constable was seated in a chair entering up the charge Otway struck him on the face and later kicked him on the chin. The constable. who was elderly, was compelled to use his baton before he could overpower Otway. The latter, in evidence, alleged that the constable passed an insulting remark about his wife, but the constable and a police inspector who was at the station denied that any reference was made to Otway’s wife. The magistrate accepted the police evidence
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 8
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154CONSTABLE STRUCK Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 8
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