FLYING CROCKERY

Evening Star, Issue 18392, 28 September 1923, Page 4

FLYING CROCKERY

SATURDAY EVENING PLEASANTRIES.

A BOARDER IN TROUBLE,

William James Conn, on remand, plosdefi not guilty to having assaulted George Jones,. Air Irwin appeared for tho accused. Georeo Jones, a seaman, said that- on September 8 last tho accused was at hie house. 'Witness said that there wen several people in the house at the time c the trouble, and Conn asked his little her to put out his pipe. “ I then got inr head split with some crockery,” added wi. ness, “ and I also got landed in tho dies, I had to go to tho hospital, and hot ono or two ribs broken.” When th mcloo started tho only other man i the house “cleared out.” Conn had bee hoarding with him for some tiros.

Mr Irwin: You met with an acciden at Invercargill, didn't you? Witness: That’s nothing to dio with th>, case.

Tho Magistrate; You must answer,

Witness: I fell down tho hold of r. little ship called the Waterlily. Witness stated that ho had been out of work for three months. Conn paid £2 a week for hoard.

Mr Ir win; A pretty good boarder. Witness admitfed that on tho night of tho assault ho had a drink.

Mr Irwin : What djd you say to Conn ? Witness : “ I said nothing to him.” Ho added that he objected to Conn putting his pipe in the fire, and before ho could say very much more to him “ all tho dishes in the house worn flying at my head.” Mr Irwin; Where-did this happen? You sav you were in bed ?

Witness: The trouble took place in th© kitchen, where I slept. To Senior-sergeant Mathicson: Conn used had language to him. Lloyd Jones, adopted son of the last witness, said that while his father was lying on (he sofa he saw Conn throw n pepper pot at him. Air Irwin: Was his aim good? . 'Witness; No, sir. Mr Irwin: Mr Jones was using bad language, wasn't he 9 Witness: 1 didn’t hear. ' Air Irwin; There was loud talking. What was that about? Witness: There was always loud talking on Saturday nights. The Magistrate: T don’t suppose anybody will question that. The witness added that Conn did not follow his father out. nor did ho strike him. Air Irwin : What was tho story about the pipe? Witness raid that Conn objected to the pipe, as his father was always coughing when he was smoking it. Witness said that he put tho pipe into tho fire himself. When his father went out he tripped in the scullery. Emily Jones, wife of the first witness, had just been sworn when she collapsed in the witness stand, and had to he removed from the court. Dr Speight said that when Jones entered the hospital ho was found to ho suffering from a small cut over the right, eye. Jones also had Iris ninth and- tenth ribs fractured. AH' ,-Irwin said that if the boy Jones had told the truth, (hen there was nothing in Jones’s story. And why were not tho .Sutherlands called? Their evidence would have been important, as they were in the house at the time of the trouble.

The accused said that he had liver, in llm house for two years. On the nigh, of the trouble Jones “had a few drinks in him.” Jones had, usod ! very bad language, but lie denied having hit him. He iisfi pushed Jones, and am not see him fall To Senior-sergeant Mathicson: Thre were no dishes thrown except the peppp box. “If I had bit him,” added witnei, “ I suppose I would have killed him.” Senior Sergeant: How many drinks (fi you have?

Witness; I don’t know. I always havei drop of drink in- the place. The Senior Sergeant: You’ve been ho before?

Mr Irwin • Lot ms compare Conn’s ori Jones’s records.

The Magistrate said that Jones’s sfor was highly colored. Tho evidence of th boy Jones showed that his father ha fallen in the scullery. The accused, bow ever, admitted that he had' pushed him and as the result of this Jones had receive, a cut over his eye. There had evident 1; been some dispute between them. ' Ac diced was fined £l, and ordered to,pai wEneas's expanses, an default fourteet days’ imprisonment.