CITY POLICE COURT.
Thursday, Mabch 23.
(Before Mr 11. Y. Widdowson, S.M.)
A Drunkon Blow.—Thomas Ferguson Parker pleaded " Guilty" to charges of drunkenness and of assaulting John Daviso,n Coupar on March 22. Station-sergeant King stated that the accused had gone into the Oval boarding-house at 10.15 the previous night and asked for a bed. The proprietor (Mr Cougar) asked him if ho was going to pay for it, arid he replied that lie had no money. Mr Coupar then asked him to leave, whereupon the accused struck Mr Coupac and knocked him down. The police were sent for, u,nd he was arrested. He had £3 0s 7Jd in his possession.— Parker stated that Mr Coupar had pushed him roughly into a sido room, and on the emir of the moment he turned round and struck him.—Mr and Mrs Coupar giivo evidence that no hands had been la.id on Parker, who struck Mr Coupar after refusing to pay. —Tfoo Magistrate inflicted a fino of ss, with the alternative of 24 hours' for drunkenness, and of £2, with costs, OS, or 14 days' for the assault.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15100, 24 March 1911, Page 8
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