CHARGE OF ASSAULT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 16

CHARGE OF ASSAULT

BLACKSMITH COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

CPHESS ASSOCIATIOK TXLEGKAJtJ WELLINGTON. January_£_ Two brothers, James Patrick affi" nan, a blacksmith, aged 46, and vj., Vincent Shivnan. a mechanic, appeared before Mr J. G. 1* S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at" lington to-day. on a charge of as»» mg John Wiliam Wellington, so cause him. actual bodily harm- . charge against Cyril Vincent Shi was dismissed. The other accuseo. . pleaded not guilty, was committal the Supreme Court for trial. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle sain on the night of December 20, am*" named Kenneth Rowell was ing friends at his house in quay. Going outside he saw accused standing in the back near the gate. James Patrick who was under the influence off*** was alleged to have remarkea . Rowell, “I am going to S et your wife.” Cyril Shivnan wasso*J«d Rowell went into the house and the occupants that there was He then left for the police Evidence would be given that interval the two accused aUe “'"S forced their way into the house attacked Wellington, who was a plete stranger to them. .. jW Detective-Sergeant Doyle sain the two accused demanded that fP’L, and his family should leave the which was owned by Mrs Shivnanrent was always paid to Mrs and was no business of the two_ cused. It was alleged that punched Wellington and knoc*£&, down and that after he had his feet and was about to leave Shivnan picked up a full botue beer and struck him on the heau___ it. Wellington was rendered scious. He was picked up in the »»

and taken to hospital, “This man was a complete sira«*j to the Shivnans and was without any provocation whatew added the Detective-Sergeant. . Ten witnesses were called lor, prosecution.