"VICIOUS ASSAULT"
Described by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday as "a disgraceful thing," an assault made upon a youth. J. C. Hardwicke, by Walter Edward Berry, aged 22, a soldier, cost Berry a fine of £5. "And you in uniform, too," remarked the Magistrate to the defendant, who pleaded guilty, and had nothing to say. Berry was walking along Thorndon I Quay with two other soldiers, said SubInspector G. H. Lambert, and the young man Hardwicke stood on the edge of the footpath to let the three soldiers pass. As they did so Berry struck him a very violent blow on the mouth, making him bleed profusely and necessitating attention by the Free Ambulance. It was a vicious and unprovoked assault.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 44, 20 August 1940, Page 14
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