A MIDNIGHT STRUGGLE.
BAKER AND LODGER. AUCKLAND, September 7. A story of a midnight struggle was told at the Police Court when William Walter Anderson was charged with having assaulted William Ferguson. Sergeant Rowell said the accused was a baker and at his residence near the bake-house, boarded a lodger named Ferguson. The accused sent a message to his wife that he wanted her at the bake-house and she arrived there in company with Ferguson whom the accused attacked with' a dough knife. Ferguson’s Ay as slashed and he Avas chased doAvn the street. Counsel for Ferguson said there had been trouble |n the household and husband and ■ Avife av ere about to separate. Mr. Hunt S.M., did not regard the matter as very serious The accused probably lost his temper and didn’t mean to stab Ferguson He fined him £2 or three days imprisonment.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15922, 10 September 1923, Page 5
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