ASSAULT CHARGE
WAIT ARA INCIDENT. USE OF KNIFE. (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, June 9. On the charge that he assaulted John Mallard Crow in a hotel bar at Waitara, Thomas Briddlecombe Ewens appeared at the Waitara Court. Crow suffered a wound on the hand from a knife. Ewens, who was a member of th j Waitara Borough Council and president of the Freezing Workers’ Union was given a good character and was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. A charge of using obscene language was dismissed. The defence was that after the failure of the freezing works strike unionists persecuted Ewens, who became ill and depressed. When he went to the bar he had a specially sharpened knife. During the argument he drew the knife saying that before he would be dragged to the gutter he would use a knife on himself. Crow seized the knife. The wound was inflicted when Ewens drew it through Crow’s hand.
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Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 6
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165ASSAULT CHARGE Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 6
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