SOLICITOR ASSAULTED
WHEN LEAVING CHURCH. A WELLINGTON INCIDENT. t (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Alleged victimisation of himself and his wife was pleaded in extenuation by Vincent Henry Farmer, who conducted his own-defence when charged in the Police Court with having assaulted Augustus John West Walker, a solicitor, when the latter was leaving a church last Sunday morning. In giving judgment, the Bench said that defendant had been worried over his financial operations and had become incensed with complainant, and assaulted him. Defendant had been quite unjustified •in the assault and would be over in the sum of £25 to keep the peace for 12 months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 155, 12 April 1930, Page 6
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