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TAXIMEN'S DONNYBROOK

HARD WORDS AND BLOWS,

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The taxi-stand in Cathedral square was the scene of a fairly lively donnybrook -in the early hours of Sunday morning, and as a result Norman James M'Dowell and John Llewellyn Powell were charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with using obseerie language.

Robert John Reid, a taxi-driver, said that about a quarter to one on Sunday morning three young men went to the stand and asked for a driver who was not there. Another was asked to take the party, - but be was engaged. Witness walked away. When Powell used bad language to him he walked back and spoke to Powell about tho language. Powell handed his coat to a mate and came at witness, who, in defence, hit Powell, getting a blow in first. Then witness was knocked down, and M'Dowell held him till Charles Gilbert, another taxi-driver, pulled him off. M'Dowell then hit Gilbert and knocked him down, and put his heel on Gilbert's head. The police were telephoned for, and the three men dived into a taxi, but were not driven away.

M'Dowell was fined £7 for assault and £5 for obscene language. The assault charge against Powell was dismissed, but for obscene language he was fined £5.

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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 10

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TAXIMEN'S DONNYBROOK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 10

TAXIMEN'S DONNYBROOK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 10

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