INSULTING THE PREMIER
SCENE IN COURT.
[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington*, Thursday. When the Agnews were placed in the dock, to-day, on a charge of insulting the Premier, the man broke out into a fearful torrent of abuse, both of Sir H. Atkinson and the magistrate, Mr. Robinson, calling them infernal rogues and swindlers. It was impossible to go on with the case, and the constables were ordered to remove them. Mrs. Agnew defended her husband, violently pushing him into a corner of the dock and screaming loudly, while she kept the policeman at bay. Agnew continued his imprecations and it was not for some time that their struggles were overcome and the pair were borne a way by main force, shouting to the last. They will be brought up again to-morrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9219, 23 November 1888, Page 5
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