MAGISTRATE’S COURT
SATURDAY (Before Mr S. F. Marshall, J.P., and Mr T. L. Jones, J.P.) WILFUL DAMAGE Tahi Smith, aged 24, a forestry worker, pleaded guilty to a charge of wilfully damaging a sports coat valued at £4 15s. the property of Norman Clarendon Jerviis Hughes. Senior-Sergeant J. Fletcher said that Smith, with other young men who had been working at Balmoral with him, were in the bar of a city hotel on Friday when Smith produced a razor-blade and cut Hughes’s coat down a seam and across the back. Smith was fined £2 and ordered to make restitution of the sum of £4 for the damage done.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26528, 17 September 1951, Page 3
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