FRA'CAS IN COUNTY HOTEL

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 10

FRA'CAS IN COUNTY HOTEL

“DRUNKS" ASSAULT T. KIRKWOOD.

USE OF OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

Obscene language, drunkenness and assault led to the appearance of three men at the Stratford Court yesterday. They had attacked Thomas Kirkwood, of the County Hotel, for refusing to serve them with liquor. Samuel Cameron, Edward Joseph Thompson and Albert Edward Lumsden were each fined 10s for assaulting Kirkwood. Lumsden and Thompson were fined £5 for using obscene language and all were convicted and discharged on the drunkenness charges. They were ordered to pay medical expenses and replace, a vase they broke. The disgraceful scene, said Sergeant Power, had occurred at the hotel about 3 o’clock. The men were seen in thebar" by Mr. Kirkwood, and owing^to-their general condition were ordered to leave the hotel,. They ' asked to be served with drink, but were refused and again ordered to leave. Mr. Kirkwood threatened to ring for the police and went to the office. The. three attacked Mr. Kirkwood. Lumsden and Thompson grasped him by the throat and inflicted deep wounds over one eye and under the chin. There were other people about, but Cameron dealt with anybody who sought to interfere. Obscene language of the vilest nature was used by the three men. Cameron alleged that he took no part in the assault, said the sergeant, but actually he was in the whole proceedings, and but for his operations Mr. Kirkwood would not have been so badly injured. Accused were lucky that they were not facing the charge of doing actual bodily harm. The arrival of the police had been

timely. Mr. Kirkwood eaid he ordered the men out at least six times. When he came from the office the men came at him in fighting position, and the vase, was then broken. One man pushed him against the wall. They seemed to be waiting for him to do something first. When he was hard against the wail witness pushed the man and then the fight started. The three men were in it. Lumsden: ! can show marks on my body. Witness: I had to defend myself. Lumsden: You hit me first. The men were not extremely intoxicated but they looked such “characters” that he had decided to order them to leave, said witness. . They looked as if they were ready to do anything. E. J. Kirkwood, licensee of the hotel, Raid he had served the men with a drink hoping that they would then leave. Lumsden fought for about twenty minutes and when he’tired he left it to the others. There were people about but they did not care to interfere as accused looked so dangerous. Mr. W. R. Foley took a hand, but was floored by a blow from behind. Sergeant Power said nothing was known of two of the men, but Cameron had previously been fined for assault. Two of the men came from the public works at Ohura and the other from Hawera.

GENERAL.

When J. McQuillian, Broadway North, walked from behind a parked motor-car near the Stratford Post Office he stepped in the path of a slowly moving car driven by Mr. F. Littlejohn, Wanganui. McQuillan was thrown beneath the car, which stopped instantly. He suffered only bruises and superficial cuts. He received medical assistance and was able to go home. The following bowlers will play for Avon in a friendly match against Eitham at Avon ' to-day:—Mantle, Wilson, Hardy Jones, MacDonald (s); Thomson, Collingwood, Bet's, Ansley (a); Bulman, Rudkin, A. E. White, J. Masters (s);-Rogens, Moss, Fletcher, F. Jackson (s); Burke, Clark, Pearce, North (s). The secret of our success is based on a fair deal and a one price policy to everyone. We not only increase our business but are establishing a reputation for highclass goods, dependable and prices of the very lowest. Every article in our store is a star . value and our claim is to our matchless prices. The Auckland Warehouse, general drapery and clothing store (opp. County Hotel), Stratford. KING’S THEATRE, STRATFORD. STARS IN “INTERFERENCE." All the stars and players in the Paramount all-talking picture, “Interference,” talk. That talking picture will be the main attraction at the King’s Theatre, Stratford, commencing this afternoon. The principal players are Clive Brook, William Powell, Evelyn Brent and Doris Kenyon, all of whose voices register very plainly and accurately in the picture. There are no sub-titlas in “Interference,” the continuity and action of the story relying upon the spoken dialogue for its success. Allactors in “Interference” have had previous stage experience, and their work in that picture marks the. first sutcessfuP attempt to give a legitimate stage attraction just as presented on the stage without one iota of change. Every word spoken in the stage drama of that name will also be heard from the screen by the stars in “Interference.” The stage play was first pro- ; duced in England, where it played for two years. It ran for nine months in New York in 1927, It is a story of a woman scorned and is laid in London. ELTHAM MUNICIPAL THEATRE. The wonderful coloured extravaganza, “Prince of Adventures,” just makes the programme. This is one of the world’s greatest pictures. The story of a scamp and scoundrel who won the most beautiful women of the day, just to east them aside —wonderful scenes of the carnival of Venice and the Royal Court of Russia. A great story full of action and romance. |

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