ALLEGED ASSAULT
LYTTELTON CASE Christchurch, May 10. There was a large attendance at the Lyttelton Court to-day when William Evans, acting delegate for the Seamen's Union at Lyttelton, was charged with assaulting Arthur Johnson. Johnson gave evidence that he was accosted by a stranger at Lyttelton and asked if he was looking for work. He answered that he was not, and then the stranger persuaded him to go to the shipping office. The place he was taken to was the seamen's meeting room. Some of the men made at him after the stranger had said: "Here you are, here is a ." ' He ran away, but was set upon, hit and kicked. Evans hit him several blows. Evans was sentenced to a month's imprisonment.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 6
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