ACQUITTAL OF ASSAULT.
SEQUEL TO HOTEL VISIT. COMMENT BY JUDGE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] GREYMOUTH, Tuesday. William Jamieson, charged with assaulting John Thomas Butterworth at Ngahere, was found not guilty in the Supreme Court, the jury returning a verdict without retiring. Mr. Justice Adams, commenting on the evidence, which showed that the parties concerned in the case were drinking in the Ngahere Hotel after eleven o'clock on a Sunday night., said he thought the facts ought to be brought under the notice of the Licensing Committee.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19889, 7 March 1928, Page 13
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