CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 14

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

LANDLORD AND TENANT. With a swollen and bandaged face, Norman A. Edgar appeared in the Police Court yesterday as the chief witness against Maurice Tangney, aged 31, his landlord, who was charged with assaulting him. "Jle Jias made a lot of threats to me because 1 live in the same house as he does," Edgar said. "He threatened to murder me, to break my nose and to 'get' my blood. He reckons 1 owe him rent, but I don't. Yesterday morning ho disturbed me while 1 was lying in my bed by banging at my door. When 1 opened it he hit me on the forehead and my head hit the door. Then 1 fell on the Jioor and' he kicked me in the face—lacked me,in the eye, in fact. 1 got away and called the police." Denying his guilt, Tangney said he defended himself. "I gave him two lefts to the face with my left hand," he said, "and two rights. 1 only gave hirn four punches arid ho went down. He can't light properly. He hits you on the head like a woman. He is the worst tenant I have had. Ho won't do a thing I tell him. Between unscrupulous mortgage men and bad tenants, 1 don't know wiere 1 am. And before wo started fighting he used bad language to me." « In fining Tangney £5, the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, ss.id: "Those two straight lefts will cost you £2 each. I Jan understand people using obscene jwiguage to you i£ you always talk like