"QUARREL OF FRIENDS."
MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED.
* "At 5.30. p.m. yesterday constable', saw this' .man strike the woman oh the. face with a loaf of bread,'* said Inspector Edwards in., the Police .Court i,X\i. morning; * referring •to John Edwkrd Hyne/3, aged 38, labourer, who pleaded iruilty to a charge of assaulting R-.fie Huntec. v>,: ■ ..
The inspector added that Hunter was arrested aftlie same time for drunkenness'ajjd using obscene language. Hynes had a list of previous convictions. ~ ' ' Mr, K./JC, Aekins, on accused's behalf, said Pyiies had not been/5h "trouble Tor '! some trme: : "He was trying to get thio i woman' to "go home, and evidently usp.l more."force than he should have d0n, , ," , ■ said' counsel. "The whole; incident w'as a drunken quarrel between.friends. -Tho woman made no complaint, against Jiirni" Hynes was. fine £2 for the aseault i and allowed seven days in which to pay, i while Hunter was fined .5/ for drunken'•ness and ,£2 ■ ,o.r .14 .days ;,fpr r -using, obscene language.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 203, 28 August 1934, Page 8
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