Assaults on the Police.
(UNITED PRESS ABSOOIATIQN) ■' \ . . Dunbdin. Friday;. In hearing a! charge against a man named Smith of assaulting a constable While arresting -hi in', Mr Carew, R;M.;, fpbihttfl eiit that the Police Offences Act had .. i*pealed the previous statute re- ; specting this offence, and ts it, now / stood ! f tine of £5 or. two monlha' im prisonineat was all the punishment which could be inflicted.: The punishment was therefore less than what could bf given for an ordinary assault on a citizen or constables not on duty. The. charge against Smith, who had broken a bone m the leg of a constable, was remanded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1697, 1 May 1886, Page 4
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106Assaults on the Police. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1697, 1 May 1886, Page 4
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