RAILWAY CARRIAGE FRACAS
After we went to press yesterday the hearing of the charge of unseemly behaviour in a railway carriage on the Oamaru train on tho afternoon of February 12 by three men—-Daria. Anderson, and MTziugblin—was continued for a short while in the Police Court. Mr Scurr, on behalf of Davis, said his client denied striking anyone. Furthermore, Downes had adopted unwise tactics with a man under the influence of liquor by making game of him. Joshua Davis, employed in the Otago Rolling Mills, said that he had been to a picnic, at Waitati on February 12. and was intending to go to Dunback to visit a friend to whom he was taking some liquor. He neither shuck nor pushed anyone in the carriage, nor was he the cause of tho fightKam.soa M’Callion. coal miner, described the proceedings as "a bit of a scuffle, but no fight at all.” Ho did not sec Davis strike a blow. He did not take much notice of what was going on. He had “a few in himself” before starting, and ho had a flask, which the guard afterwards took from hie mate. Mr Widdowson adjourned the hearing until Saturday morning.
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Evening Star, Issue 14318, 17 March 1910, Page 3
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198RAILWAY CARRIAGE FRACAS Evening Star, Issue 14318, 17 March 1910, Page 3
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