KNIFE PRODUCED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 135, 10 June 1933, Page 15

KNIFE PRODUCED

INCIDENT IN BAR

CHARGE OF ASSAULT

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 9. On a charge that he assaulted John Mallard Crow in an hotel bar at- Waitara, Thomas Briddlecombe Ewens appeared in the Waitara Court. Crow received a wound on the hand from a knife. Ewcne, who is a member of the Waitara Borough Council, and president of the Freezing Workers' Union, was given a good character, and was ordered to come up for sentence) if called on in six months. A charge of using obscene language was dismissed. The defence was that- after the failure of the freezing workers strike, unionists had persecuted Ewens, who became ill and depressed. When he went to the bar he had a speciallysharpened knife. During an argument he drew tho knife, saying that before he would be dragged-to the gutter he would use the knife on himself. Crow seized the knife and the wound was inflicted when Ewens drew it through Crow's hand.