WAIHI LANGUAGE, CASE.
(By,Tclegraph.—pnrti Correspondent.) WATHI, titieday. In f&e Magistrate's Court."to-day, a married -woman named Mary McCuUoch, was charged with insulth]g,~beiiavf6iir, and Thomas Fester was 'charged. with using insulting 'words. , ~" The evidence showed fiiat the case iva6 an. echo of the lite strike. The female defendant,, who raft-one of the pro-aiinent militant 1 Bremen, hdd -her m>ee when the second defendant (an arbitratioiist) paKsed. The latter complained that he had continually been insulted by the Tfomaa. He admitted IhaTing made certain insulting remarte ..in retaliation ■on the occasion in question. The first defgnca-nt the charge absolutely, and" both defendants denied having any intention to commit: a 'breach of iho peace. ' Counsel raised the point, and the magistrate said that the evidence did not 6upport a charge of intent to provoke a. breach of the peace, and dismissed both informations. ' -
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 203, 26 August 1913, Page 5
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