FIST THROUGH GLASS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23178, 26 October 1938, Page 17

FIST THROUGH GLASS

DISPLAY OF "TOUGHNESS" £lO DAMAGE AT A BLOW [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Tuesday " That's how we breed them in the south—tough!" said Edward Egan, a carpenter employed on the exhibition buildings, aged 53. as he hroke a heavy plate glass door panel during a scuffle at the entrance of the Duke of Edin burgh Hotel, Wellington. Before Mr. J H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates Court, he admitted damaging the panel, valued at £lO. Senior-Sergeant D. J. O'Neill said that Egan entered the bar of the hotel shortly before 6 p.m. He was drunk and commenced abusing some men. which attracted the attention of the licensee. The licensee asked him to leave, and succeeded in getting him out the door, but as soon as he was outside he swung round and put his fist through the door with the remark quoted. Egan said he had not known that it was so expensive a door. Mr. O'Neill assured the magistrate that the value of the damage really was £lO. and the licensee, from the witness box, said that tradesmen had quoted £'lo as the value of the door panel. The magistrate remarked that payment for the damage would be sufficient penalty. Egan was convicted of committing mischief, fined Is, and ordered to make good the damage at the rate of 10s weekly.