SHIP’S STEWARD FIGHTING MAD.
HE STRUCK A MAN IN FISH SHOP. “He wanted to clean up the Port and was fighting mad - ’ was the evidence given by the police in a case heard at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court this morning when Edwin Baring, a ship’s steward off the s.s. lonic, was charged with drunkenness and with assaulting William Fowlds. The police added that on Saturday evening at about 6.15 the accused went into a Lyttelton fish shop looking for fight. He assaulted Fowlds by striking him on the mouth while Fowlds was standing at the counter purchasing some fish. ' The accused pleaded not guilty. In evidence, he informed Messrs F. G. Norton and F. Knight, J.P's, that he could not remember having assaulted Fowlds Accused was convicted and discharged for drunkenness and was fined £4 10s for the assault, together with 10s witnesses’ expenses.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 8
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