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NZ Truth, Issue 1062, 1 April 1926, Page 5

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■•■■-/ # .-; ■;:-, ;, „ ■ • Lindblom's Revenge PROBATION "JOKL" \ ' p . ■ ■■ , (From "Truth's" Special "Auckland Rep-) ; Unwittingly, perhaps, he asked a passer-by for a match, not tumbling to the fact that' in 'the gloom that the man he; asked had an old score to repay. ' Six or seven months ago Frederick Lindblom, a young man, had a row with .James Nicholson. ; , , : ' ■ ■ SittiJig bri ;a • window-sill m Elliot t Street, 'Nicholson' asked a passer-by for a match. . . : As he looked up m making the request; Lindblom recognized the man he OAved a grudge of old . standing. He struck out and landed his > enemy a punch. Nicholson did not appreciate the unexpected reply to his request and he hasten fed to make himself scai'ce, but the aggressor followed him up and landed further blows, even going to the 1 extent of putting m the boot to square matters. When answering the charge* of assault last week b\2 found to his cost that the police have a memory ' which equals his own. In stating the facts, Sergeant Calwell described it as a cowardly assault, and Lr'ndblom, to make matters worse, was on probation. "Have you not heard,""remarked Mr. Poynton, "the old saying, 'Let not the sun go down upon your . wrath'? Seven months is a long time to carry a grudge." , Accused admitted that it was silly of him. but he acted on the spur- of the moment. - . " • "I have work to go. to, sir, if you will give me a. chance." "You'll have other work to go to,"' observed the Magistrate. Called to give evidence as to Lindblom's record, the assistant probation officer was not able to put a. very rosy complexion- on the hasty one's past. .■Starting as far back, as 1917 with a motor-car theft, he had since been up for; assault on his wife, a breach of probation, and had also , done thre«* months for a later breach of his probation. "You need to exercise self-restraint-You have a serious list for a youngr man. '*■„''•. "You only recently came out of gaol and you appear to take no notice of probation. You evidently think it a joke," concluded Mr. Poynton. Lindblom < was presented with a month for assault and another for the breach of probation, to be cumulative." It was a crestfallen- young man who left ths dock a second or two latei;.

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