GAOL FOE ASSAULT
UNION DELEGATE CHARGED
(By Telegraph. -Press Association;! ■•■.•■: CHEISTCHURCH, May 10. : There was: a largo attendance-at the Lyttelton .Court today when 'William Evans, acting delegate for the Setimen's Union at Lyttelton, was charged with assaulting Arthur Johnson. ■ Johnson in evidence said that ho was accosted by a stranger at Lyttelton and asked if ho was looking for work. 110 answered "no." Then the stranger persuaded him to go to a shipping office. Tho place ho was taken to was the seamen's meeting room. Some of tho men niado at him after the stranger had.said, "Hove you are, hero is a.—" 110 ran way, but was set upon, hit, and kicked. Tho accused hit him several blows. v ' - Evans was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 8
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126GAOL FOE ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 8
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