T have no grudge whatever against the police. I brought the action primarily to vindicate my character.
Mr, Ludlow brought the action against two police-constables, Geoffrey Shelton and Edward Gray, claiming 334; damages for alleged assault and false imprisonment.
His counsel, Mr. J. D. Cassels, K.C., related that on March 30 last Mr. Ludlow was waiting for a bus in i4 High-street, Kensington. The day beying cold, he was wearing a thick overcoat and had on his arm a thinner one, which he was taking for pressing to his tailor.
When a man wearing a dirty mackintosh and a shabby hat, presenting a "down-and-out" appearance, drew near and asked Mr. Ludlow what he was doing with the overcoat, he declined to say.
Rapidly producing a card, which Mr. Ludlow did nep see, the man said something about being a police officer.
The last thing Mr, Ludlow was thinking about was that he was likely to be accosted by a police officer and accused of stealing his own overcoat. He had never. seen a police warrant card.
When the bus came along Mr. LudJow tried to board it, but another man seized him from behind, and he was swung away from the bus to the other side of the pavement.
Mr. Ludlow was asked for his name by the second man, who took charge of the situation, He refused, and was then told that the men were polite officers.
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