ANGRY WOMAN IN COURT
OPPOSING COUNSEL THREATENED [per press association.] WELLINGTON, December 14. An Italian woman, who lost her case in the Magistrate’s Court, this afternoon, created a sudden stir when she angrily picked up a chair and prepared to throw it across the room in the direction of the opposing counsel. The Court orderly seized her, and hustled her outside, where her shouts could be heard for some time after the case finished. e Her name was Maria Canal, and on a complaint of Lucia De Santa, she was bound over by Mr E. Page, S.M., to be of good behaviour for twelve months. The amount of bond was £25, and costs against her totalled £4/3/-. Speaking through an interpreter, complainant said that defendant had written her letters containing threats including one to hit her with an ironhandled umbrella. Defendant also spoke through an interpreter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 December 1934, Page 2
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