TROUBLE ON STEAMER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1923, Page 5

TROUBLE ON STEAMER.

SEAMAN ATTACKED WITH KilU'Jb'. "STABBED IN THE NECK." With a considerably surprised leok on hie face, and an eye which had 1>6611 apparently very severely handled, & mid-dle-aged greaser employed on the s.e. Kaimanawa, stepped into the dock at the Police Court, Wellington, on Monday to answer to a charge of assaulting Alexander Marshall, also a seaman on the same vessel. William Roberta, the defendant, and the complainant Marshall, were both employed on the Kaimanawa. Complainant stated in the witness box that he had gone on board and wanted to have a talk with accused, and wakened 'him for that purpose, but accused had followed him and attacked him. . "It was in that scuffle that accused sustained the 'black eye, wag it not!" queried the cub-inspector. "Yes," returned witness, "then lie went away to his quarters and come back with that knife" (an old table I knife with practically no edge on it). t "He said it was a gun, so I said 'shoot laway, , but before I knew anything he had etabbed mc in the neck. I can't understand it at all, because we have alwaj'B been friends until this time, ,, said witness. "I think he must have waked up in a bad temper." "You can fight as much ac you like," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., addressing accused, "but you must not use a knife. It is fortunate for you that the police have consented to have it dealt with summarily. You must never use a knife. You "will :be fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment."