YOUNG SEAMAN GAOLED
Fourteen days' imprisonment • was the penalty imposed upon Barret Louis Eutledge, a seaman, aged 21, who appeared before Mr; W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today and admitted assaulting Elizabeth Ann Berryman. The assault occurred in a hotel after the accused had been asked to leave ■. the premises.
Shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday, said Sub-Inspector L. R. Capp, prosecuting, the accused and two other men entered the bar of a hotel in Vivian Street. As they were drunk the licensee refused to supply them with liquor, and two of the men went away, but the accused became abusive and threatened to strike the barman. • He made his way into the passage and commenced to use filthy language. The licensee's wife asked him to leave, but he refused to do so and struck her.
Rutledge said that he was not used to taking. so much liquor. He had never struck a woman in his life before, and. he wanted to apologise, v
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 4
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166YOUNG SEAMAN GAOLED Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 4
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