USED A BOTTLE
A BRUTAL ASSAULT. (Special to “Chronicle.”) AUCKLAND, Feb. 19. There was a fracas at the corner of Vincent and Federal Streets about 11 o’clock last night, four men being involved, three stewards or waiters of the visiting liner Franconia and a local man, Francis Tanner. Tanner, who limped into the dock, was charged in the Police Court to-day with having assaulted John McCormick He pleaded not guilty. All Tanner had to say to the Magistrate was that three men from the Franconia came ashore looking for trouble. “They picked on to me and I was the mug, so I only protected myself,” he added.
“It is a brutal thing to use a bottle on another man,” said tho Magistrate, who sentenced Tanner to two months’ imprisonment.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 6
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