YOUTHS FINED FOR ASSAULT

Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 11

YOUTHS FINED FOR ASSAULT

Attack On Fellow Yorker

HAMILTON, June 20.

Two young Kinleith workmen who beat up a fellow worker when they found he had removed some pin-up pictures from their but were each fined £l3 8s when they appeared before Mr G. J. Donne, S.M., in the Putaruru Magistrate’s Court. They were Maurice Phillip Louie Scott, aged 18, a painter, and William Hector Rossiter, aged 18, a millhand. Sergeant R. J. Wright said the two accused approached the complainant, David Davidson, in an alley in Tokoroa and accused him of stealing some minor items from their hut. He denied this, and the accused “beat him rather unmercifully.” The complainant was treated by a doctor for facial injuries including a cut lip, black eye, and swollen face. “There is no jungle law even at Kinleith,” commented the Magistrate. "There was no reason at all why you should set upon this man, and It will be a costly adventure for you." He fined each accused £5, with £1 10s costs and £6 18s witnesses’ expenses.