WENT ON THE SPREE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 9

WENT ON THE SPREE

CAMBRIDGE FARM HAND trouble at monavale (Special to Times) CAMBRIDGE, Saturday Too much liquor yesterday brought trouble to Gordon Alexander Maclaine, a farm hand, of Cambridge, and he appeared at the Court this morning before Messrs K. L. Wilkinson and R. S. Entwistle, J's.P., charged with assaulting Basil Mainrod Suter. The complainant, Basil Mainrod Suter, a sharemilker, employed by Mrs Sowter, of Monavale, said defendant had been in his employ for a week. Yesterday he was in Cambridge all day and was to be back at 3.30 p.m. for milking, but turned up at 5.30 in a drunken condition. He refused to leave and when complainant came back after trying to get a neighbour to help him with the milking, defendant adopted a hostile attitude. He lifted up a milking stool and threatened to strike complainant, who was afraid of him. He also used terrible language. Complainant became alarmed

for his safety as defendant threw part of the milking machine about the shed, so he rang up the police and defendant was arrested. Defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called up. Hi s weeks' wages having gone in liquor and costs the Justices told defendant to get out of the town as quickly as possible.