IRATE AUTHORESS
Fined for Unlawful Assault
ADELAIDE, September 11.
Miss Patricia Hackett was fined £2O m the Police Court to-day, with costs £4 4/-, for unlawfully assaulting a journalist, Sidney Frederick Downer, the victim of the episode. The president of the Legislative Council to-day rend a letter received from Miss Hackett expressing sincere regret to that Chamber for her behaviour.
Miss Patricia Hackett, objecting to newspaper criticism of her theatrical production “Caprice,” went to Parliament House in search of a reportercritic and threw a bottle of ink at him. ‘‘Now I think we are quits I” she ejaculated. “Ink for inkt” The reporter picked up the hottie and remarked. “Your ink, I think.” Miss Hackett is a prominent society girl and also a barrister and solicitor. She produce* plays iu her own theatre.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 231, 12 September 1934, Page 9
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133IRATE AUTHORESS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 231, 12 September 1934, Page 9
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