“ FOUR TOUGHS.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20648, 24 June 1935, Page 5

“ FOUR TOUGHS.”

Ex-Boxer in Scene with Gate Crashers. KID LEWIS’S STORY. LONDON, May 24. Kid Lewis, the former champion boxer, described at Bow Street a scene at a private bottle party at his premises in New Compton Street, Soho. Four men were in the dock, charged with assault and wilful damage. Lewis said that at 1.30 in the morning eleven men who had not been invited came. He refused them admission, and almost instantly received a punch on the eye and was kicked. A door was removed from its hinges and thrown downstairs, and four glass door panels were broken. Nathaniel Simmonds, door-ma.n, said that about a dozen men drove up in taxicabs. He refused to admit them, and the men punched and kicked him. They pushed their elbows and feet through glass door panels and forced their way in. One of them, James Wooder, produced a razor and threatened to cut him from ear to ear. At that moment the police arrived. The men charged were Clyde Philipson (32), Barnsburv Road, Islington: Ernest Edward Tibbits (27), City Road, E.C.: John Warren (25), Caledonian Road, and James Wooder (24), Poland Road, Stoke Newington. Philipson said that during an argument at the door Lewis pushed Wooder through a window. The men were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour for assault, and fined Is and £5. compensation, or a further month’s imprisonment for wilful damage. Mr Dummett (the magistrate) said to them: You are four young toughs, blackguards, and a menace to everybody you come in contact with.