DRUNKEN MIX-UP.
AN INCIDENT AT HALCOMBE
HEARD IN S.M. COURT,
Magistrate Hewitt spent some time in the Feilding S.M. Court yesterday morning hearing a private prosecution for assault, August F. Sterne (Mr Haggitt) v. Joe Adam (Mr Graham), The charge was that accused had used the provocative words "You're a German," and struck the prosecutor. It appeared from'the evidence that Paul Talcke was the one who was struck, and there was general confusion as to what really happened. There were striking attitudes and fighting rjoses in plenty, but little real damage done, drink being the principal aggravating agent. The Magistrate, in a brief summing up, said that one fact which was clear in a general and confusing case was that a drunken man had been knocked down. " Everybody seemed to have been knocked out! (Laughter.) It was 'a drunken mix-up—a conflicting, drunken mix-up in which everybody seems to have been paid back fairly." If Sterne had assumed a striking attitude, Adam had a right to defend himself, but he could have cleared out from the trouble. Had it been a police prosecution, the defendant would have had to be punished. As it was, each side got its own satisfaction.
The case was dismissed, both sides to pay their own costs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17571, 15 May 1919, Page 5
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210DRUNKEN MIX-UP. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17571, 15 May 1919, Page 5
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