SHIP'S DOCTOR STRUCK
SEAMAN FINED FOR ASSAULT ACTING FOR A FRIEND [BV TKT.KCJKAPTI —I'HKSS ASSOCIATION'] V,"ELLIXGTON, Wednesday A son mail, J- Hornier, wns charged before Mr. E. J). Mosley, S.M., to-day with assault and pleaded guilty. "Ho is pj-obabl.v the least culpable of the men who struck me." said Dr. J. L. Bar ford, of the steamer Tainui. "He evidently thought ho was acting for his friend." Witness said accused and another man came to his cabin on Monday evening. Both were under the inJluenceT of liquor. Hornier disputed statements witness had made in a letter to the hospital authorities conceniin"" a man who had been admitted from the ship. Later several drunken men used abusive language to witness and accused struck him in the lace. Accused went outside and two other men struck witness. Accused said he was not drunk, nut in a tomijcr. He thought his friend "hud not had a fair go." • The Magistrate: And you thought striking the ship's doctor would help vour friend? . . ~ ' Hornier was fined £2. in default 14 days' hard labour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22865, 21 October 1937, Page 20
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178SHIP'S DOCTOR STRUCK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22865, 21 October 1937, Page 20
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