“WANTED” MAN CAUGHT

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 3

“WANTED” MAN CAUGHT

APPEARS ON ASSAULT CHARGE. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. Since December 15 the police have searched the Dominion for .Tames Logie (26), who got mixed up in a disturbance in a Wellington hotel on that date. 'The other day Detective-Ser-geant McHugh effected the arrest of Logie, and yesterday ho appeared at the Police Court, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting John James Oliver. Accused was represented bv counsel.

, Logie, explained Chief Detective Hammond went upstairs at the hotel on December 15 just after closing time. A disturbance was created and the licensee went up to inquire about it. Logie gave the landlord a violent blow. The barman then went upstairs and was knocked from the top of the stairs to the bottom by Logie. “It was a very violent assault and we have been looking >for this man ever since,” said Chief Detective Hammond. “He cleared out after the serious affray. Logie is a showman.” “There are two sides to every story,” said counsel. “Yes, but it was a case of top and bottom bore, apparently,” said Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. Counsel said that Logie went upstairs to the hotel when he was wrongly accused of spilling some beer on the floor. Logie denied striking the barman. He had some liquor in him at the time of the disturbance, and there wore other men present. Logic was fined £5 ; in default one month’s imprisiwnout.