ALLEGED ASSAULT

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1925, Page 2

ALLEGED ASSAULT

ROW AT ''.. 111-feeling’ ‘between two members , of Duggan’s; teovopefatiVe coal mining party at * Rewaniii .culminated' about r 4 ’ p.m, yesterday, yyjien an gssaiilf of a serious* nature took place. As a re->-suit, a middle-aged ■ mpn named Joseph Devine .appeared before Mr. A; Naylor,. -J.R; at the Greymouth ■Magistrate’s. CJqurt this afternoon, charged 'wftH 1 ? his son-iri- ; law, Robert AfcTag'gart, with intent -to do gfievb'ua/bodiry harm. Devine was. arrested ht. 'Dynollie this ' morn- -. ing by Constable Houston. He was represented by Mr.-W. J. Joyce. Senior-Sergeant. P. <J, McCarthy applied for; A remand until to-morrow, in, .ord.erto the .evidence of the doctor who attended McTaggart. ' The doctor intended to leave, for D.unedin onSaturday, and it would be In the interests of Devine and everybody else to get the doctor’s depositions before he left. The case coifld be.-proceeded with when McTaggart was, fit. to .appear, . • Mr; Jjdycc applied for bail. “I don’t think for-a'moment that th&re is any fear.of the,man clearing out,” said the Senior-Sergeant. “He seems to be quite , frank about .the matter',” , • Devine was admitted to £25 bail, and remanded ; untii :. 11,15 a.m. tomorrow, wlien he will appear (before , Mr. W. Meldrum,. S.M., r : . - '■• •■ ; It is ' understood’ that tlie assault 1 was committed with an iron bar, McTaggart being struck on the back of the head, the wound necessitating /four stitches,- . / { ' '