TEOUBLE IN CHINA SHOP
PEOPEIETOR AND POLICEMAN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, 26th March. "The defendant alleges that he acted under severe provocation, extending over eight years, that this trouble has been brewing a long time, and that the upset over cups and saucers was merely a culminating point," said counsel in the Police Court to-day when Sydney Douglas George, a prominent resident of Wai turn, pleaded guilty to assaulting Constable Lapouple, and with using obscene language. Counsel said that there was a private quarrel, the nature of which he was not at liberty to disclose, between George and the constable. It was advisable that he should not disclose it. The_ quarrel hud arisen over a small commercial transaction with Lapouple, not as a constable, but as a private citizen. George had knocked him down in the street, kicked him iv the face, and used obscene language. George was fined £2 for assault and £5 for obscene language.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1930, Page 10
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158TEOUBLE IN CHINA SHOP Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1930, Page 10
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