JUSTICES’ JUSTICE!

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 149, 16 May 1894, Page 2

JUSTICES’ JUSTICE!

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Some few month* ago atuan. bearing the reputation of u fighting man. walked into one of the Pahiatua hotels, met a gentleman, and without the slightest provocation proceeded to “ flatten him out,” which ho did successfully. He (the fighting man) is brought up before the justices, charged with an “ unprovoked assault,” which charge was fully proven : the constable

gives him a character good enough to get him two years in any company ; sentence —“ bound over in two sureties to keep tho peace for six months, in default six months' * hard.’ ” This gentleman leaves the Court to find bondsmen, but has not found them up to the present, neither has lie done tin* six months. A few days ago a pugnacious individual walked over to a r spectable settler who was standing in the street and “went for hint” straight away, but through an rorof judgment, I suppose on hi* par;, he gets “flattened out.” The same evening ho ( hi attends a public pei fonuane • in t he )

like some of '.be Australian banks —*• closed, pending reconstruction.'' I also noticed that he was fired oat into tbn dark and silent night by our local ocnstable “Uy gob." Now, this fired-out individual i> brought before the justices and charged with the same offence ae the before-mentioned fighting man, and gets in the first place a thrashing, which he richly deserved. He also gets lined 1 1 end bound over to keep the peace to ail and sundry for twelve mourns, in default twelve months in geoi. Another gentleman drives into Pabiat ta the other night and through pare ettssedness tackles a respectable settler outside one of the hotels, knocks him down, and leaves him with a broken leg. He gets—nothing I Moral—if you want to “go for" a friend drive up aiu buggy and do it—l am, etc., M. T. Bbu.t.