COURTS AND OFFENCES.
”iCLIVED BENEFIT OF A DOUBTf HY TKI.BGHAPIT—PKESS ASSOCIATION."! AUCKLAND, March 13. Hugo Smith, lion tamer with WirtliM Circus, wivs charged at the Police Court with assault on a boy nine years of age by striking him with a whip. Two witnesses asserted that the accused deliberately struck the boy, inflicting a cut over an eye. Smith said the boy was; right up against tlie lions’ cage within a dangerous ‘distance. Witness attempted to strike a lion on its paw and accidental y hit the boy. Mr McKean, S.M., said that witnesses for the police differed, slightly in their version. He hardly imagined the man would "deliberately strike the bov with the whip. There was a doubt and accused was entitled' to benefit by it. The charge was dismissed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 March 1928, Page 5
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