ASSAULT ON SOLICITOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 December 1927, Page 5

ASSAULT ON SOLICITOR.

TROUBLE IN A LAUNDRY. A man who refuses to give his name to the police is held in custody in Wellington on a charge of assaulting Mr A. IV. Blair. •Air Blair, who is a member of the well-known legal firm of Chapman, Tripp, Blair, Cooke, and Watson, was on his way home at 6 o ’clock last night and entered a laundry depot in Willis Street. It is alleged that he found a man annoying a young woman in the depot and requested the man to leave. The man is said to be a pedlar and to have possessed a razor which he was attempting to sell to the woman. He ■ refused to leave and a violent struggle took place, at the close of which Air Blair ejected the man from the shop, and a policeman arrived on the scene. The faces of both contestants were then streaming with blood. The man was taken to Taranaki Street piolice station and will be charged in the Alagistra'te’s Court to-day. At the S.AI. Court this morning, John James Spring, commonly known as “Sharpe,” a razor export, was fined £5, in default 21 days’ imprisonment, on a charge of having assaulted Air Blair.