A BLACKGUARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10751, 23 November 1928, Page 6

A BLACKGUARD.

TAXI-DRIVER SERIOUSLY ASSAULTS PROMINENT CITIZENS

ONE MONTH’S GAOL AND CIO FINE . ,

(Press Association.) - AUCKLAND, Nor. .22. In the. Police Court, John Tait, taxi-driver, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for assaulting Captain XL A, 'Humphreys Davies, and fined .CIO, in default one. ' month’s imprisonment for assaulting Stanley Austin. Oirr, .. a prominent Auckland business man and ex-presi dent of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association. f The assaults took placo at Clovedon on. Sunday, September 2. when Tait’i ,tvho was with a woman, was asked by,Captain Humphrey Davies if- lio- know ho was on privato property. Tait replied he could go where "ha . liked, as he was a Governments inspector in the Fores try Department. Tait later attacked both Captain Humphrey Davies and Mr Carr with a hammer, threatening to "do them in” : and burn the house. When Captain Humphreys Davies oyadod some of the blows, Tait asked another man, who had come up in .the meantime: “What have you done with the gun?” :. < Captain Humphreys Danes said he considered they owed their lives to his, wife, who tried to restrain Tait from following them into the house, and told him they were Both Buhject to severe heart attacks. _ The Magistrate, Mr Hunt, said it was a very bad assault. Accused had behaved like a blackguard and * had terrorised the household for a whole Sunday afternoon.