DIRECT ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 10

DIRECT ACTION

MODERN CAVE MAN ATTEMPT TO DRAG OFF WOMAN (By Telegraph.) < (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. A disturbance at Onehunga on the evening of 6th September led to the appearance in the Onehunga Court yesterday of Henry James Tattersall, of Wellington, a New Zealand representative cricketer, on charges of assault and using obscene language. ■ Edward Thomas Staccy, a taxi:driver, was charged with assault. Sergeant Cruickshank said that Tat-I tcrsall and Mrs. Halkett had been living together in Wellington. They separated, Mrs. Halkett going to live at Onehunga. When she and two women friends were returning from the pictures, they were approached by the two accused, and an attempt was made to drag Mrs. Ilalkett into a taxi-cab. The screams of the women attracted two young men, who. succeeded in driving the assailants away. The evidence of Mrs. Halkett's companions showed that the accused had pushed them aside, one boing knocked into a hedge. Mrs. Halkett was taken to a taxi by the two accused. Stacey, in evidence, said that Tatteraall had engaged him, and they proceeded to a house. Finding no one at home, they waited until the theatre performance was over. He did not help to carry Mrs. Halkett to the car. Tattersall pleaded guilty, and was fined £5, and bound over to keep the peace for twelve months. Staeey was fined £2. ■ .