BAILIFF ASSAULTED
FIFTEEN MEN CHARGED [ Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Oct. 15. Fifteen men were ‘charged at tho Police Court to-day, as a sequel to tho eviction of a woman irom a house in Norfolk Street, with assaulting the bailiff and procuring lawlessness. All pleaded, not guilty. The bailiff, in evidence, said that as he started to force his way in, a voice inside said: "Come on, bo; s, we will give them a fight for it.” Inside the passage he saw about a dozen men armed with cudgels. He called the police who demanded that the men put down the cudgels. One said: "It’s no good, boys. They are too many for us.” The bailiff then entered unopposed. Tho doors were ad barricaded and tho windows nailed. Cross-examined, witness said that the fact that his warrant was against a woman with five children had nothing to do with him. Mr Dickson (for defendants): “1 •am going to suggest that the whole thing is more or less a political agitation.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 245, 16 October 1931, Page 7
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