CASE DISMISSED.
ASSAULT CHARGE FAILS
"A DRUNKEN" BRAWL."
.. "I am satisfied that it was a drunken brawl. Both parties have been sufficiently punished by having to appear in Court and 'by losing a day's work," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, in dismissing the case against Verdi Darley and Frederick Hayward, who were charged with assaulting Clifford Andrew Jackson on June 7. Mr. R. jST. Matthews appeared for defendants. Dr. J? E. Caughey .said Jackson was brought to the hospital suffering from a wound on the right, side of his scalp. He was kept in bed for nine days, and two stitches had to be inserted in the wound. Jackson had said that he had fallen over and thus sustained the wound. "It seems to have been a disturbance in the house owned by Hayward," said Sub-Inspector Shanahan, who prosecuted. "Drinking was going on, and a mix-up followed, resulting in Jackson having to go to hospital." Evidence was given by a taxi driver and by a.looker-on, and then Mr. Hunt intimated that he did not want his time wasted with such a ease. He therefore dismissed it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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193CASE DISMISSED. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 22 August 1930, Page 9
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