DETECTIVE ASSAULTED.
A FIREMAN FINED. j (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORXE. Friday. A case which excited a considerable amount of attention was heard to-day in the Magistrate's Court, when John Thomson, deputy superintendent of the fire brigade, was charged with having assaulted Detective Mitchell during the progress of a fire at Kaiti (suburb) on the 28th vdt. The facts as stated by the police were that Detective Mitchell was standing near by, and bhat the defendant asked him to keep clear of the hose, subsequently pusliing him off the footpath, striking him a severe blow in the face. For the defence it was pleaded that Thomson did not know Detective Mitchell. It was admitted that the defendant pushed Mitchell off the footpath, and that seeing: Mitchell advance in a threatening attitude, Thomson got in the first blow, still unaware or Mitchell's identity. Mr. W. A. Barton. S.M., held that an assault had been proved, but said the case was not one calling for a heavy penalty. He imposed a line of 10/- His Worship suggested* that Thomson, on being made aware of Detective Mitchell's identity, might have apologised, and he expressed yegret that the incident had gone as far as to be brought into Court.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 209, 2 September 1911, Page 11
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