PORTER PUNISHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 185, 8 August 1927, Page 8

PORTER PUNISHED.

ASSAULTED TWO WOMEI

KNOCKED ONE OUT.

GAOL FOR FOURTEEN DAIS

'•He usually makes it a reguhr nr*. lice of breaking in his door disturbing the neighbourhood ev ~ Friday or Saturday night," said 117 Kose Lindsay, who gave evidence George Porter (38) at the this morning.

lorter, a tall man of good who was represented by jfr. X2J aenied that iic assaulted Ko»e ISS and Ada Mary Horsial on July^T* Mrs. Linusay said that she « M -Jf *ng along .Nelson Street on the niektiJ question in company with her d 2£? wi-law, the other complainant. iW' saw them and followed, striking Porter then struck her romwuLtimes "knocking her right out onTJ ground, unconscious."

Ada Mary Horsfal saw accused eonuw irom his wife s house. He accosUdS and her mother-in-law, striking the kt ter on the jaw. "I rushed in to *«„£ the two and received three puncheT « the face which knocked me ilnconwoj My hp was cut and I received a blut eye." ""**

Mr. Schramm : You were both cobs I suppose ? —Yes. '

You did not swear at Porter?—Sβ, Well, did you throw any mod at kw» —Oh, no.

Another witness said that he nefad one woman up off the road and sawl man running up the hilL He coold not jdentifv the man.

Mr. Schramm said that there had been a great deal of trouble, and there wu some feeling between the two womea and accused. Porter was a married mas with ten children, and had only come oat of gaol in May after serVing » months' sentence over a maintenance matter. He had not much time to get back to work again, and counsel asked that some leniency should be shown him. "Yes," said Mr. Hunt, "a great big ma like him hitting a couple of little women. Fourteen days' imprisonment on e*ch charge, the sentences to be concurrent"