INCIDENT ON WAHINE
CHARGE OF ASSAULT I P«r Press Association. I WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. j The altercation which took place recently on the Wahine between the I winch-driver and a waterside worker | was investigated in the Court to-day, l when Herbert Frederick Hilton Shep- j herd was charged with assaulting’ David Stewart Stewart was taken to hospital with a cut on the arm, but the defence stated that the cut was accidental, Stewart having apparently drawn his arm across a knife when he rushed at Shepherd. Shepherd was cutting some yarn to bind some canvas on a cylinder head and steam pipe. He* said he did not know at first even that | Stewart was cut. Magistrate Page, at the close of the evidence, said it seemed to him that Stewart was the aggressor throughout. He did not think the charge of assault had been established, and dismissed the ease.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 6
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149INCIDENT ON WAHINE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 6
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