A LIVELY MOVING DAY

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 194, 13 May 1922, Page 6

A LIVELY MOVING DAY

“A MAN OF PEACE”

AND BROTHERS ARMED WITH STICKS

The want of harmony which sometimes exists in apartment houses was once again revealed in tho Magistrate’s Court yesterdav, when Lewis Clure was charged with having assaulted Norah Cohen. Mr. J. O’Donovan appeared for the complainant, and Mr. F. O. B. Loughnan for the defendant.

Henry Isaac Cohen, tailor’s assistant,r who resides at 61 Aro Street, said that he was the landlord, and defendant and his wife had been tenants of his. On April 22 last defendant and his wife were leaving, and they were making a great noise of hammering upstairs. Witness remarked to his wife that if they damaged the carpot they would havo to pay for it. Dofeirdant then came in in a very excited manner, and said, “If you make me pay for the carpet, I will break your d head.” Defendant then struck at witness, and Mrs. Cohen then rushed between them, and succeeded in getting defendant 'out of the kitchen/ Later, witness found that his wife’s foot, high up on the instep, had been badly injured. Witness then called for his brother Joe, who was upstairs, and Joe and he obtained sticks, and went upstairs to chastise the defendant. They could not get a blow in, however, as Mrs. Clure kept interfering. ' Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Couldn’t you and Joe and your wife manage him? The witness stated that he later had to call in a doctor, who had to put four stitches in tho wound in his wife’s foot. Nora Cohen gave her version of the happening. She did not know how her foot had become injured. She did not want any fighting m the house,, and had rushed between the combatants. His Worship: If two dogs are fighting, and you rush in between them, you should not be surprised if you get hurt. ' Lewis Clure, the defendant, said that Cohen was a very bad-tempered manl and was particularly cantankerous in the mornings. On the occasion in question Cohen was the aggressor, and defendant the man of peace. Mr. O’Donovan : Have you ever been convicted of assault before? .“Yes; once.” Were you not convicted of assaulting a man at the Jewish Club? —“We were both convicted.”, Annie Clure, wife of'the defendant, declared that Cohen was tho aggressor. After the scuffle in the kitchen, Cohen and his brother Joe came upstairs with great sticks, and commenced to belabour her/ husband. Tho Magistrate dismissed the charge without costs.