BIT LIKE A DOG
Man Fined for Assault (Bj Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Juno 8. When Frederick Coombes, aged 21, coppersmith, was charged before Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., with assaulting James Carroll the police said that Mrs. Carroll's brother invited a number of triends for a party at tho house after the races, and when Carroll came home about nine the house was full of people and kegs of beer. Carroll ordered them off the premises and remonstrated with Coombes, who was pulling palings off the fences. A fight ensued, Coombes getting Carroll down and biting off a considerable portion of one ear and also putting his fingers in Carroll’s mouth and causing a wound which had to bo stitched by a doctor Carroll’s clothing was damaged to the extent of £2, and the fence to the extent of 10/- Carroll was sober. “You are tinea £lO and half the fine is to go to Carroll,” the Magistrate said. “If you want to fight, fight fairly and don’t use your teeth and bite like a dog.” Seven days were al'•>wed fc pay.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 149, 9 June 1936, Page 3
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