ASSAULT WITH RAZOR
SEAMAN SENTENCED. I “ REIGN OF TERROR.” (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Arthur Gaddy, alias Alley, who was yesterday sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for embezzling ship's stores, was. chraged with assaulting Bert Hoare, a member of the crew of the Raranga. Complainant was helping.a constable round up members of the crew, when lie met Caddy, who attacked him in the street and on the wharf. Later he came up from behind him on the ship with an open razor. Caddy in defence told a story of a reign of terror instituted by Hoare and two others. He said these men attacked him and he got the razor to protect himself. The magistrate said lie did not attach much importance to the actual fight, but getting a razor was serious. He sentenced Caddy to a month in addition lo the previous sentence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17984, 1 April 1930, Page 7
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