POLICE COURT
CHARGE OF ASSAULT. At the Police Court yesterday morning before Messrs A. Macpherson and M. Miller, Justices of the Peace, George Joseph Hunt was charged with being found drunk in a public place, to wit, Dee street, with assaulting Wilfred James Wood, and with wilfully breaking one window, valued at 25/-, the property of William Todd and Co. Senior-Sergeant Fox, who prosecuted, said that at 8.30 accused went into a shooting gallery in Dee street. He said that he had had a fight at Wallacetown and produced a blood-covered handkerchief as evidence of it. He remained at the gallery during the evening and after 10 o’clock the proprietor, Wood, spoke to him. He then struck Wood with his fist. He went to strike Wood again, missed, and broke the pane of glass. There was. evidence that he intended to assault Wood, but it was probably due to drink. Accused had said he had work to go to at Mataura. The assault was unprovoked and caused annoyance in the gallery. Accused was convicted and discharged on the first offence, fined £5 in default one month on the second charge, and convicted and ordered to pay damage on the third, in default 14 days’ imprisonment. He was given till Monday to pay.
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Southland Times, Issue 20976, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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212POLICE COURT Southland Times, Issue 20976, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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