NEIGHBOURS AT VARIANCE.
BITTEN IN THE WRIST.
HAMMER FOR DEFENCE.
Trouble bet/ween neighbours resulted in I an application being made in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. W. Poynton, SM., to have Thomas 'Young (Mr. Sexton) bound over to keep the peace. The complainant, Thomas Dixon (Mr. Hubble). ! gave evidence of • defendant's quarrelsome nature, Defendant ' had once bitten him on the wrist, while complainant had always tried to avoid trouble Complainant admitted that once he got a hammer, since Young looked so ferocious, but he had not used it. Defendant contended that complainant had used bad language to him and. at tempted to hit him with the hammer. Dixon had once hit him with a lump of wood. '".... Mr. Poynton said he was satisfied that Young, was to blame. He ordered him to enter into his own bond of £200 to keep the peace for 12 months. Complauifjit wae allowed costs andj exjpences. An application to have John Jenkinson (Mr. Sullivan) bound over to keep the peace was made by James Camped before Mr. W. B. McKean, S.M. The application was dismissed without ins defendant beirtjj called on to give evidence. Defendant was allowed £2 2s costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 9
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198NEIGHBOURS AT VARIANCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 9
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