AFFAIR IN HOTEL
"Douglas Haig Snowball, a welder, aged 22, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today charged with committing mischief by wilfully damaging.a walking stick valued at 10s 6d. Sub-Inspector D. J. O'Neill, prosecuting, said that the complainant, W. Campbell, an elderly man crippled in one leg, had been in the bar of a hotel and the defendant had come in in a drunken state and threatened to give him . a hiding. Campbell had never seen the man before, and he left the bar and went into the private bar and complained to the licensee. The accused followed him there and took his walking stick from him and smashed it. Snowball was convicted and ordered to make good the damage, and on a charge of drunkenness he was convicted and discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 7
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226AFFAIR IN HOTEL Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 7
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