“KING HITTER” GAOLED
ASSAULT BY SEAMAN (Par Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Described by the police as a “king hitter,” who gets his blow in first while the other man is not looking,” Matthew Macneill, a seaman in the Port Denison, was convicted in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Joseph Halligan on March 13. . He was sentenced to imprisonment for one month and 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 6d expenses incurred by Halligan, who the police stated, was discharged from hospital only yesterday. The police stated that Macneill hit Halligan with a box, knocked him down and kicked him.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 6
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128“KING HITTER” GAOLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19894, 23 March 1939, Page 6
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