ASSAULT CHARGE FAILS.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. It was not the fact of being asked to leave, but the manner of his ejection that Maurice Costello, a middle-aged man, objected to when he was put out of a Hamilton hotel on Saturday night. To-day he was charged with assaulting the licensee; J. Cheshire, who said that between 9.30 and 10 he saw Costello sitting in the lounge, and asked liim, as he was not a boarder, to leave. As he refused, he took him by the arm and led him to the door. There Costello was arrested by a constable for assault. In reply to accused, witness said he did not remember being assaulted. Accused said he was in the lounge with his brother-in-law, who was a boarder, from six till 8.15. men he asked for a drink Cheshire seized him by the coat and rushed him out. It was "not the treatment for a dog." He denied that he assaulted Cheshire, but said he certainly resented his treatment.
Mr. Wvvern Wiilson, S.M., dismissed the charge.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 9
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