ALLEGED STABBING.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17528, 17 January 1929, Page 5

ALLEGED STABBING.

FRACAS ON STEAMER. MAN BEFORE THE COURT. A QUARTERMASTER CHARGED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 17. Arnold Hinds, a coloured quartermaster on the steamer Bloemfontein, has been arrested in connection with the stabbing of a man named Norman Maitland Childs. Hinds appeared at the Police Court to answer a- charge of assault so as to do bodily harm. Detective-Sei’gt. Nuttal asked for a remand till January 23, to call two witnesses from the steamer Maimo. Mr Hanlon, for the accused, was allowed to call evidence for the defence. - Edwin Branch, a ‘ quartermaster, stated he saw no signs of a knife or blood about Hinds. William Robert Cherry, the second •bfficer, stated that after investigating the disturbance on the deck Hinds reported that visitors to the ship had Ween causing trouble. Some of the Maimoa’s crew were on the wharf later and. when somebody called out that a man had been stabbed he did not go down or allow any member of his crew to go, because he thought it was a ruse to start a fight between the ci’ews. He did not see Childs being put down the gangway by Hinds. The remand was granted.