WAITRESS ASSAULTED
PORTER HID UNDER BED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Appearing from beneath a bed when a girl was preparing to retire last evening Ralph Watson, aged 2o". an hotel porter, assaulted Myrtle Joyce Pawsy. This morning Watson appeared in the Police Court charged with assault and was fined £5 by Mr. H. A. Young, S.M. Senior-Sergeant Bickerdike said the police were called to a city boardinghouse where complainant was employed as a housemaid-waitress. Accused, who had been keeping company with her for some months, had come out from under her bed when she was preparing to retire and an argument had ensued, ending in Watson striking complainant several times on the face. A man in the building had forced the door to stop the assault, but Watson had struck him also. Watson said that complainant had asked him to call. She had borrowed some money from him and he bad gone there to get it. "Did someone else cut you out?" asked the magistrate. "Yes, but he is not here; he's on a boat," said Watson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23615, 27 March 1940, Page 11
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