MEN ASSAULT EACH OTHER
COURT FINES BOTH , JP?' 0 1 .5“ e “ 3 e . r< ; charged in the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Messrs W. T. Lester and A. W Salmon, Justices of the Peace, with having assaulted each other. Both were convicted and fined. Malcolm Elliott George, a labourer of Hornby, aged 24, was charged with assaulting James Dermott Perry, a seaman. He was fined £2 10s. Perry was charged with assaulting George, and was fined £2 10s.
Senior-Sergeant J. L. Graham said .that the two offences were oommttted
on Saturday evening. The first assault took place m a boarding-house. Perry had afterwards assaulted George on the railway station. Perry had also br.oken a window ip. a railway carriage but had agreed to pajr for the damage!
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 9
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