ASSAULT WITH RAZOR BLADE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 7

ASSAULT WITH RAZOR BLADE

MAN CONVICTED AND PUT ON SHIP fWew Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 7. A man who was said by the police yMaye attacked a fellow member of crew of the Dominion Monarch a razor blade and gashed his jace, and later been “beaten up” by «e victim s friends, appeared before ~j£. J ; S. Hanna, S.M., in the Magis~^es Court today. -.Toe accused, James Mell wham, aged an assistant cook, entered the dock Jfrrth one eye half closed and his face Jjremted. He was sentenced to a imprisonment on a charge of Alan Frederick Williaihs, aged 22, a gyrtennaster, and William Henry “JCkey, aged 25. a quartermaster, were jointly charged with assaulting Mell wham. Each was convicted and toed £4, with costs. Prosecuting Mcllwham,. Sub-Inspec- " W. Edwards said that there had peen trouble on the ship between the , and the complainant. On June two men had words, and the was gashed on the face, rour stitches were put in the wound. A razor blade was found on McUwham. When Mc'lwham asked that he be to prison in New Zealand rather ‘Jen be put back on the ship, the Magistrate said that the accused did to he a suitable immigrant, th ii - is °’’ t th** question.” said u*e Ma -istrate. imposing sentence. He «o that the accused be placed - boa ’? f he shin before it sailed. The sailed later in the day. . .Alter the complainant was assaulted, ms two friends went in search of Mc*,wharn said Sub-Inspector Edwards. ' §T )Sec V tin2 Williams and Hickey. found Mcllwham and thrashed he said.