ASSAULT WITH SLASHER
ACCUSED FINED £lOO AND BOUND OVER
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, June 6. For assault causing actual bodily harm, Charles McCormack Dunster, aged 45. a storeman, was yesterday afternoon fined £lOO and bound on his own recognisance of £2OO for 12 months on condition that he keeps the peace, particularly with his neighbours. He appeared Tor sentence before Mr H. Jenner Wily, S.M., in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court The accused had struck a neighbour with the blunt part of a slasher after a long dispute over a dividing fence Detective-Sergeant T. W. Irving said that the complainant had been disfrom hospital for some days, though it was not knowh how long it would be before he could begin work again. 6
‘ ‘™ s was a cowardly blow,” said the Magistrate. “The dispute of 18 months standing in no way excuses the blow. Violence is used far too commonly today.” The Magistrate said he would be Ifnient m dealing with the accused, bpbaviour had been good, ld h°t think the accused would offend again. »
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 14
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