GAOL FOR “KING HITTER"
MAN VIOLENTLY ASSAULTED. Electric T-aJegrapL—Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night, Described by the police a« a “king hitter who gets his blow in first while the other man i s not looking,” Matthew Mac Neill, a. seaman oil the Port Denison, was convicted in the Police Court to-day on a charge of assaulting. Joseph Halligan on March 13. He was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment qml ordered to be placed aboard the- ship at Port Chalmers before she leaves the Dominion at the end of the month. He was also ordered to pay £6 5s 6*l expenses incurred by Halligan, who, the police stated. wa s discharged from hospital only to-day. AlacNeill, stated the police .hit Halligan with a box. knocked him down and kicked him
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14090, 23 March 1939, Page 5
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130GAOL FOR “KING HITTER" Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14090, 23 March 1939, Page 5
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