ASSAULT CASE.
CONSTABLE THE VICTIM. , tpBBSa ASSOCIATION TSLEOBAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, March 26. "Defendant alleges he acted under scsvere provocation extending over eight years, that this trouble has been brewing a long time, and that the upset over the cups and saucers was merely the culminating point,"' said counsel in the Magistrate 'a Court to-day when Sydney Douglas George, a prominent resident of Waitara, pleaded guilty to assaulting Constable Lfl, Pouple, and with using obscene language. Counsel said there was a private quarrel, the nature of which he was not at liberty to disclose, and it was advisable he should not disclose it. The quarrel had arisen over a small commercial transaction with La Pouple, not as a constable, but as a private citizen. George had knocked him down in the street, kicked him in the face, and used obscene language. George was fined £2 for assault, and £5 for obscene language.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19888, 27 March 1930, Page 9
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