FATHER TURNS HOSTILE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 August 1925, Page 3

FATHER TURNS HOSTILE.

! ♦ j BAYONET ATTACK ON CHILDREN. I AND DESTRUCTIVE BARRAGE ON | FURNITURE. AUCKLAND. Last Night. "After he had rushed his son and daughter with a bayonet and injured them both, the accused lost his head and broke practically everything in the Kitchen, including the sewing machine,” said Sergeant Calwell, m the To ice Court to-day, when Thomas William Henry Squire, aged 46, was. charged with assaulting his daughter Eileen and his son Norman Squire. Sergeant Calwell said the case had bud features. A constable was called ' to accused’s residence early on Monday evening and on arrival found that accused had assaulted his son and daughter with a bayonet. He had rushed at the son and the girl had placed herself in front and was knocked about the head. The boy also received a slight injury. Accused was under the influence of liquor at the tim e and had a violent temper, which had got the bettor of him on several occasions.

The Magistrate {Mr. Hunt): “What do you say to a prohibition order?” Accused; ‘There is no need to make an order I can so without drink and without ! hat. You can make a separation or tiny thing - you like, but a prohibition order is quite unnecessary." Mr. Hunt; “How often does he break out like this?” Accused’s son said his father would be all right for months and then would corno home and break up everything he could lay his hands on. Sergeant Calwell said accused was in regular employment. The Magistrate convicted Squire and ordered him to come up for sentence when called upon. “Now you understand if you come up here again, yott will get six months,” sald Mr, Hunt