FRACAS IN COURT
SISTERS AND THEIR HUSBANDS. Two spirited eases were heard in the Magistrate’s Court recently, when Jean Nelson Watts was charged with assaulting Vernon Ashley Walts and Alurion Nelson Stuckey was charged with un- ( lawfully assaulting CeeTl Robert John Stuckey. The eases arose out of a fracas in and about the court buildings on August 16. The two women were sisters, and the two men were their j respective husbands. On August 16, there were exr.itiiiu scenes when a small' man was cliased through the court-room ‘by his big wife. lii the eases ail exhibit of hair alleged to have been from the head of one of Hie men was displayed. The informations were dismissed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17147, 24 September 1926, Page 12
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117FRACAS IN COURT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17147, 24 September 1926, Page 12
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