HAYES HITS HARD.

NZ Truth, Issue 473, 11 July 1914, Page 4

HAVES HITS HARD.

Downs Duncan With the Dream ■';■-.. Dope. Bob* Broken Boko Costs Bill £10. ..(■"'. .■■■'.■■ (Prom "Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) Judging by. a bundle of proceedings which blew into the Christchurch S.M.s Court last Wednesday for S.M. Bailey's decision, Billy Hayes, the wellknown Canterbury rep. cricketer is capable of treating obstreperous humanity m the same way that he wallops a "pussy" bowler's gqoglies to the boundary. Billy, with Lawyer Donnelly as his wicket-keeper, was asked to explain, to the S.M., why he smashed the smelling machinery of Bob Jim Duncan. The legal phraseology of the biff was that Billy did assault one Robert James Duncan with intent to cause actual bodily harm. . ( Mr. Fred Brpwn, medico, stated that a badly battered Duncan hawked a broken proboscis into his surgery for repairs on June 27. To Mr. Donnelly: The fractured organ would not seriously disfigure the inherent beauty of Duncan's dial if it healed all right. Duncan, a forlorn-looking- specimen with a plaster-patched bugle, reckoned he followed Billy to Beasley's bakehouse on June 27, v and asked him why he sent a bill for £ 18, which had ALREADY BEEN DUBBED UP, and for which Hayes had promised to send an, acknowledgement. Billy told Bobjim thaf "that'd be all right" and Bobjim dished out some, business advice wilh the result that Billy recom- • mended him to go to a warmer place than Sydenham, and then rushed him and planted a ginger-laden left on his. boko. Some Magisterial pumping of . the witness yielded the . information that there was a little more conversation which Bobjim had skipped in-his evidence. When Billy had consigned Duncan to- H— Duncan had replied that Hayes was trying to do him out of eighteen; quid. Then Billy landed his bundle of fives. v Replying to "Costs*" Donnelly, Duncan said that he owed Billy £40 for plumbing and paid the last instalment of £18 on June 22. Hayes had not given a receipt for the last instalment. Hence the bother. A day or "two after the dust-up, continued the witness, he received a receipt for the £ 18, ''with thanks." ■ Samuel Beafcley, boss dough-puncher, Sydenham, reokonod he was m |the Vicinity of the Hayes — Duncan dust-up on: June 24. He heard Duncan ask Hayes, why he had 'not sent

Came ashore from bridge and wheel, • Captain Lambert good old Pop. No more we'll hear his ringing peal "Full speed ahead," "half," "slow," "stop." But still from Bluff to Cape Maria, In cabin, steerage and on deck ■ We'll think of him we all admire /;

a receipt as promised. Hayes replied that he would see about it later. Duncan grew voluble and finally THERE WAS A DUST-UP. Hayes hauled off and landed a stinger m Duncan's dial, remarking, that he was teaching Duncan a lurid lesson. Cross-examined, witness said he was Duncan's brother-in-law. He did not know thero was a mill scheduled until he saw the principles hard nt It. At thin point "the Court adjourned fpr lunch. * Magistrate Bailey, on top of lunch, did not consider it a case for n jury. W. T. Hoohp,. giving evidence as to Billy Hayes's character, said that he had known him for live years. Billy had un excellent character and was a representative crlckwter, with a reputation as good as his "sooglles." Hayes. In the witness box, admitted having on a previous occasion, mixed it with another follow, but the guy had FIRST PUNCHED HIM. In the present cnso Bobjoo stood with his back to the bakehousu door and had pushed witnoss away. When Bob* j Joe wanted to get out he made the cheerful remark that, if the receipt was not uiuced up. either ho or wltneßa would be killed In the clcanlngup process. Witness endeavored to leave i ho bakehouse when Duncan fastened on to thu back of his neck. This was the lam straw (or witness, who bowled into him. When tapped on the buglo Duncan collapsed among the flour and squawked "I'm killed, I'm killed!" The argument lasted half an hour altogether. Duncan was a bad payer- and was trying to get out of paying. Cross-examined by the Sub-Inspec-tor, Billy reckoned that the money was all paid eventually, although he had a hard Job to get the Instalments. Ho wrote tho letter, produced, to Duncan, SHIUEKIN'O FOX PAYMENT, after the account hud boon settled, moro u(t ti joke thnu seriously, because Duncan had tried to get one on to wUucbh In tlio mmv way. Hilly was convicted of common ".*»♦ sault. and mulcted In v fine of £10. half of wh it'll \vu* to jro toward payment for the patching of Jjuacun'n broken boko.