"END- OF A SPREE."

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 9

"END- OF A SPREE."

FISTICUFFS AT WHANGAREI. : WHAXGAREI. Tuesday. | j At the Whangarei Court to-day Wil-' | liam Laurence Bowler alias Thomas |i Woods, appeared on two charges, one of ' ' being found drunk yesterday, and the other with using obscene language and | assaulting a Maori on January 9. On 1 the firs: count he was convicted and ' : discharged. but for rue obscene : ' language he was fined £.3 in default one ; month's imprisonment, and id or 14 - i days' imprisonment for the assault. ' ! The same man wa- before the i our: i yesterday. a hen Mr. 71. A". Tate. >.M.. : was on the Bench, but in a different | capacity, when (•eor_ r e Walker was ; charge! with having assaulted William . ' Law-on Bowler by knocking him down ■ outside a local hotel on New Year's' . , Eve. and kicking him or. the head. Ac- ! cording to the evidence there was no i provocation, although it was elicited ! th.it the men had oeen in company • earlier, and other men. namely Michael | Hoev and R. Plaisred were 'concerned i in a preliminary disturbance within the . hotel. Walker was convicted and Sued 12. half of which was to do to Bowler. [ Co-ts in addition utnoutned :.• £0 7 "5. , (sequent charge against Flaisted tor l , :i--aulr in j TUev. former wa* convicted 1 , and ordered to pa\ ±2. costs £1 1-" 3.