PRODUCED A KNIFE
Incident in Hotel Bar PUBLIC MAN CHARGED by Tolcgranh.—Press Association New Plymouth, June 9. On a charge that he assaulted John Mallard Crow in an hotel bar at Waitara, Thomas Briddlecombe Ewens appeared in the Waitara Court. Crow received a wound on the hand from a knife. Ewens, who is a member of the Waitara Borough Council, and president of tlie Freezing Workers’ Union, was given a good, character, and was ordered to come up for sentence if called on in six months. A charge of using obscene language was dismissed. The defence was that after the failure of the freezing workers strike, unionists had persecuted Ewens, who became ill and depressed. When he went to the bar he had a speciallysharpened knife. During an argument he drew the knife saying that before he would be dragged to the gutter he would use the knife on himself. Crow seized the knife and the wound was inflicted when Ewens drew it through Crow’s hand.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 12
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166PRODUCED A KNIFE Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 12
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