A WHARF INCIDENT
ALLEGED INRCLTING WORDS. WITNESSES l-'.TTT TO API'ICAR. This morning ;it, the Police Corut, before Mr 11. \V. Bundle, S.M., a wharf laborer named Walter Kennedy was charged will) using insulting words, with intent to provolte a breach of the peace. The offence was alleged to have taken place on December 15 lari. Accused pleaded “ not guilty.” The witnesses for tin; prosecution did not appeal'. Senior-sergeant Mathieson: ”1 am afraid, your Worship, the witnesses do not intend to turn up. They were to be here tins morning, and one of them, the chief witness, Piston, telephoned the police station last night that he. would be certainly here in the morning. The case cannot go om without them.” Mr Irwin (for the accused) said he understood the unfortunate position the police were in, but it was no fault of theirs. In regard to the present case he would like to say that the affair had no connection whatever with the shipping strike. s It was merely a personal quarrel between the parties. Senior-sergeant Mathieson; “These men ire employed as seamen on tile s.s. Cormna, and as the vessel is going into dry dock at Port Chalmers there is no reason why they should not bo here.”
The magistrate adjourned the case to Monday to give tins witnesses another opportunity to attend.
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Evening Star, Issue 18171, 11 January 1923, Page 4
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222A WHARF INCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 18171, 11 January 1923, Page 4
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