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USE OF A KNIFE [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Dec. 18. n “I don’t like men who use knives, and I am going to give you seven days,” said Mr. J. L. Hewitt, S.M., to John Henry O’Brien, aged 53, a seaman, charged with assaulting Michael Coyne. “Use your fists—that is an-
other matter—but when you start with knives that is not playing the game, and you know it.” Coyne, in pvidence, said he was seated in a billiard room when accused came up and struck him twice in the face, then produced a knife, and witness had his hand cut in warding off a blow. A constable who was called in said accused had a big pocket knife in his possession and was drunk z Cn a charge of drunkenness O'Brien was convicted and discharged.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 301, 20 December 1937, Page 6
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