ASSAULT IN RESTAURANT
MAN KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS For having knocked Nelson 1 May off a chair and rendered him unconscious in a public restaurant, Thomas Robert Davies (Mr. Rogers) was fined £4 in the Magistrate's Court at Onehunga yesterday. In pleading for leniency, Mr. Rogers told the magistrate, Mr. C. R. OrrWalker, that complainant and his wife were separated and that accused had been on friendly terms with Mrs. May. Complainant had on many previous occasions molested Davies with obscene and offensive language, and on April 17 accused followed May into the restaurant and committed the offence complained of.
The Magistrate: Why didn't he w r ait Until he g6t him into a private place find then hit him? Why didn't he strike bira when he used the language on the previous occasions? The proper course have been to accuse May of using abusive language. Mr. Rogers pointed out that nothing *as known against his client, to which the magistrate retorted that accused had received no provocation on the night in question.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22725, 11 May 1937, Page 15
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