KNIFE DRAWN IN BAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 12

KNIFE DRAWN IN BAR

FREEZING WORKERS’ QUARREL A CONVICTION RECORDED. (Per United Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 9. On a charge that he assaulted John Mallard Crow in an hotel bar at Waitara, Thomas Briddlecombe, Ewenis appeared in the Waitara Court to-day. Crow suffered a wound on the hand from the knife. ’ Ewens, who is a member of the Waitara Borough CounciU and president of the Freezing Workers’ Union, and who was given a good character, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. A charge of using obscene language was dismissed. The defence was that after the faiflure of the freezing works strike unionists persecuted Ewens, who became ill and depressed. When he went to the bar he had a specially sharpened knife. During an argument he drew the knife, saying that before he would be dragged to the gutter he would use the knife- on himself. Crow seized the knife and the wound was inflicted when Ewens drew it through Crow’s hand.