A HORRIBLE CHARGE.

NZ Truth, Issue 66, 22 September 1906, Page 5

A HORRIBLE CHARGE.

The case against George Phillips, a •middle-aged man, who was charged last week with committing a nameless assault on a boy, came before S.M. Kettle on Monday. The details are. too filthy for publication. Tec; McMahon said that when he arrested Phillips he denied the charge m toto. In defence, Phillips, pleaded not guilty, and said that he had been 33 years m ttie colony ,and had never been m any trouble of that kind previously. .He was committed for trial to the Supreme Court. A second similar charge against him had the same result. It came out m evidence that Jimmy Ross, the lightweight champion of New" Zealand, was a boarder at the house where the alleged offence was committed. When Jimmy heard about the atfair he made his way to accused's room. Apparently the pug TRIED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED the accused m his own mind m about 30 seconds, for m giving his evidence Ross said that he went into the accused's room and so excited and indignant was he over the job that he immediately set to work and gave 'Phillips a thundering thrashing; and, to use his own words, "I laid him out on the bed." Jimmy, as a dispenser of justice, was a huge joke; but Phillips didn't seem to see it evidently, as his dirty lefts and jarring jabs left a painful impression behind.