POWER-HOUSE ASSAULT.
ACCUSED'S WAR RECORD. [by telegraph.--press association.] WELLINGTON, Monday.
In the Supremo Court, before Mr. Justice Hocking, John Neil was charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. This was a tramway power-house case, a rising out of an affair between two firemen. The jury brought in a verdict of giiilty with a very strong recommendation to mercy. Prisoner had no previous conviction against him His Honor remarked on tho violence of the assault, in which prisoner had broken the other man's nose and kicked bim in the ribs when down.
Mr. Tread well referred to the war experiences of the accused, who had lost the use of one eye on Gallipoli, and had been torpedoed and rescued among 40 survivors out of over 360 persons. He had served in German East Africa, and was receiving a pension of 10s a week, which he would lose if (sentenced to imprisonment. H;s Honor said he would like to have that maitter cleared up, and decided to stand prisoner down for inquiry on tho point raised.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18015, 14 February 1922, Page 8
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