MOTHER ASSAULTED

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3392, 24 December 1931, Page 5

MOTHER ASSAULTED

" BIRD OF PASSAGE;'' FROSE AUSTRALIA^

(By Telegraph. Press Association.) i WANGANUI,, Wednesday.' ! There were some Jiyejy' passages in the Police Court this)rinorning when Daniel Richard Neilijigy f ged 23, who recently returned frbttivAiistralia, was [ charged with assauljfciiig his mother, by striking her with his fists and kicking her on the>back. NeiUng denied the charge. Hesaid he merely put up his hand's to* Ward off his mother's attack. .He had called at her house to give her some money. Senior-Sergeant McLean said the parties lived a cat' ahd^bg'life^ During accusedfs /evidence, he said his mother: hati been convicted for shoplifting at Auckland;* . The mother: interjected:; ** You/ilid; two years ingapliinlAussie; for nicking things." '* .. ~ ;• Senior-Sergeant; McLean isad never in all his career had he hjaard 'the worst type of; accusation against higllftotHer...'; "It only goes to prove, what.ift 'blackguard you are/* 1 added the offie^rf/. When Mr J .H..,Salmon/ S.M., was passing sentence, the accused interjected. '.'.■■' • The;'magistrate: replied? { "% won't have '^ou. bantering words with me." Hi&rW'b'rship; convicted Neiling and keep the peace for twelve'month& and find two sureties of £so>;" ; "':.'V'•••.' ■ ... ,::',:, "He isi a: bird of passage,", said 'Senior Sergeant McLean. - .'.'lf he could only be;prevailed upon to-' go back to Australia as- a bird of '"passage," exclaims the magistrate. "Don't hriiiK \ oui i l u'linghurst practices to Wanganui," he added.