DAMAGING MODEL ELEPHANT
FATHER ACCUSES SON. LONDON, March 6. Summoned by his mother and father at Darlington to-day for wilful damage to a model elephant and for common assault, Thomas K. Hinningan, 22, of - Hargreave-terrace, Darlington, was ordered to pay £9 11/6, representing damages, lines and costs. Thomas Hinningan, his father, said last summer bis son constructed in their front garden a large model of an elephant, the material being bought, by witness. The skeleton of the elephant was made of tubing, and it was covered with soil and fibre and held together with wire netting. Flowers were planted' on it. and it cost £3/5/-. A photograph of the elephant was produced in Court, and the clerk remarked, “It is a fearsome-looking thing.” Witness added that his son became acquainted with a married woman, much 'older than himself, and there were frequent quarrels between him and his parents.
One night he went to his parents’ house, jumped over the garden fence, and tried to push the elephant over. Being unsuccessful, he proceeded to “disembowel” it with a pair of wireclippers. On another occasion he struck witness in the face, knocking out two teeth.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1936, Page 5
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