CHARGE OF ASSAULT IS SEQUEL TO STABBING AFFRAY.
.(Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, January 17. A stabbing affray outside a. dance hall some weeks ago resulted in the appearance in the Magistrate’s Court to-day of Ernest Ditleve Pederson, a mechanic, aged 25, charged with having assaulted Stanley John Wells, trainer of the Filipino boxer Jamito. Chief Detective Ward explained that when the trouble occurred accused was having an altercation with a friend. Wells interfered and struck Pederson, who thereupon stabbed Wells with a pocket-knife, inflicting a wound that necessitated thirteen stitches. Wells was sent to hospital, where he incurred expenses amounting to £4 10s. Some days after the affray, accused was also admitted to hospital suffering from injtxries to the brain and spine. All the men had been drinking. Mr Salmon, S.M.: The use of a knife, is always a serious matter, but it appears that in this case, the accused was assaulted first. T do not think, therefore, that I should make an order for payment of Wells’s expenses.
Pederson was convicted and admitted to probation for twelve months.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18056, 17 January 1927, Page 11
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