THREW BOTTLE OF INK
Adelaide Woman Fined £2O (Received September 11, 9.40 p.m.) Adelaide, September 11. Miss Patricia Hackett was fined £2O in tlie Police Court to-day, with costs £4/4/-, for unlawfully assaulting a journalist, Sidney Frederick Downer, the victim of the ink episode. The President of the Legislative Council to-day read a letter received from Miss Hackett expressing sincere regret to that Chamber for her behaviour. On September 5 Miss Patricia Hackett, a daughter of Lady Moulden. figured in a real-life drama at Parliament House. Objecting to a newspaper criticism of her theatrical production “Caprice” she wont to Parliament House in search of the “Advertiser’s” reporter and critic and threw a bottle of ink at him. It is understood that the bottle inflicted a gash on his forehead and the ink spilled down his clothes. . . Miso Hackett is a prominent society girl; also a barrister and solicitor, and produces plays in her own theatre.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 297, 12 September 1934, Page 9
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