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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 17 January 1913, Page 8

At the Magistrate's Court at C'hriatohureh yesterday W. J. C. McGuire was charged tltat on December ID last year he assaulted Hiram Hunter. The plaintiff Hunter in evidence stated that lie wae a- Gity Councillor and president of the North Canterbury Labor representation Committee, and McGuire was engaged as secretary of the Bazaar Committee. As the result of the alleged use by McGuire of violent language at the bazaar, Hunter, as president, wrote asking him to resign. On the date* of the assault defendant went to Hunter's office and attempted to open negotiations, but Hunter rofused to talk with him. AVliile plaintiff was dusting his desk defendant "lashed out," and his ting cut his nose. McGuire said, "I'll kill you. Hunter." Witness' nose bled freely. He rushed McGuire from the olfice. and in the passage McGuire picked up a chair and threatened to ''hash out" witness' brains. He laid an information as he believed defendant to be dangerous and ■of ungovernable temper, defendant in Jn's evidence stated that on the day of the assault Hunter made some remarks as to witness' character and he had slapped him. Hunter had come at him with a chair. Witness had looked upon it all as a burlesque. He had thought Hunter a fierce fighting man. but had found him "a big schoolboy." The magistrate said that the case was one whioh mig)d well har* bcon settled out of court. It was not a. case for sureties. Defendant would be fined £2 and ordered to pay costs.