INSULTING LANGUAGE
SEQUEL TO LAWSUIT HAWERA FARMER'S OFFENCE [n\* TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] HASTINGS, Monday A charge of using insulting language to a well-known jockey, Percy Christian Atkins, was preferred against Frederick William Ehrhorn, farmer, of Hawera, at the Magistrate's Court at Napier this morning. The prosecution followed a civil action heard in the Supreme Court at Napier when Ehrhorn was non-suited in a claim for £ISOO for loss of the racehorse Gay Chief, allegedly through negligent riding by Atkins. "After the civil action was over, I went out on to the Parade and talked to a number of my friends," said Atkins, in evidence. "1 saw Ehrhorn on the Parade, and while I was speaking to some friends ho came up and said, 'I suppose you're satisfied now, you dirty rotter, but I'll get evens with you later.' He seemed very annoyed about the case." The magistrate convicted defendant and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. He was also ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, and undertake not to molest Atkins in future.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22584, 24 November 1936, Page 11
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182INSULTING LANGUAGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22584, 24 November 1936, Page 11
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