ASSAULT ON VICAR.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16811, 1 June 1926, Page 14

ASSAULT ON VICAR.

APOLOGY AND £2O DAMAGES. Wantage (England) County Court was crowded when the vicar of Uffington, Berkshire (Rev. Edward Macgregor Hadow) sued Mr Henry Wcyland Martin Powell, an old Eton boy, now a trainer of horses, for £SO damages for assault. Mr G. K. Hose, barrister, for Hie vicar, said that Mr Hadow had been vicar of Ufflngton for 10 years: Mr Powell had only recently gone lo live in the district. He was accepted by the vicar as a friend, and he and his wire were frequent visitors at the vicarage. The assault took place in the presence of several of Mr Iladow's parishioners, outside an inn, one Saturday night. "Mr Powell," Mr Rose added, "sent a peremptory note to the vicar asking him to meet him in the White Horse yard." The vicar did not go, but later Mr Powell met him in the street, violently assaulted him, knocked him down, and kicked him. The vicar, in evidence, said that on the day before the assault he went into Oxford with Mrs Powell. She went shopping and lie went to the Clarendon. They came back to Ufflngton together, and Mrs Powell had tea at the vicarage. On the next day, Saturday, March 0, Mr Powell's groom brought a note from his master asking the vicar to meet him in tlae White Horse yard that night.. He asked Mrs Powell to go and tell her husband that he had another engagement. Mrs Powell went, but came back to the vicarage and wept in the arms of Mrs Hadow, saying her husband had said: "Don't interfere with me. I have got a job to do," and then struck her. "That night, about 7 o'clock," the vicar added, "I was returning home when Mr Powell came out of the White Horse Inn, seized me by the arm and said—"l have a word to say to you. What have you been saying to Mrs Summers about me? I hear you told her that I was a perfect disgrace to the meet the other day, and that I frequented public houses." "He then struck me on the jaw and knocked me down on the ground." After a suggestion by the Judge Mr Powell apologised for the assault, withdrew all allegations against the vicar, and agreed to pay £2O damages and costs. The damages arc to be given by the vicar to a hospital. The vicar is Gl years of age, and Mr Powell and his wife are both 24. MESSRS SHARPE BROS. V- ' Messrs Sharpe Brothers, the wellknown manufacturers of cordials and aerated waters, and hygienic brewers, of Norton Road, Hamilton ('phone 159 4), again have a stand- at the Show, on which arc the various lines of drinks and beverages for which Sharpe Bros, are famed as dispensers. They arc the original and largest manufacturers in Australasia of the jar system of beverages. Their famous health beverages have established an unrivalled name for all that is best in the line, their LO Brandy being the greatest non-alcoholic stimulant on the markeL