ASSAULT IN HOTEL.
BOROUGH COUNCILLOR CHARGED (Per Press Association). NEW PLYMOUTH, June 9. On a charge that he assaulted John Mallard Crow in an hotel bar at Waitara, Thomas Briddlecombe Ewens appeared at the Waitara. Court. Crow suffered a wound on the hand from a knife. Ewens, who is a member of the Waitara Borough Council find president of the Freezing Workers’ Union,, was given a. good character. He was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six~nontlis. A charge of obscene lauguage, was dismissed. The defence was that, after the failure of the freezing works strike, unionists persecuted Ewens, who became ill and depressed. When lie went to the bar he had a specially sharpened knife. During an argument he drew the knife, saying that before he would be dragged to the gutter he would use the knife on himself. Crow seized the knife and the wound was inflicted when Eweiis drew it through Crow’s hand.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 204, 10 June 1933, Page 2
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