BLACK EYE AND BRICKS.
HOW A WINDOW WAS BROKEN THE MISSILE CANNONED. Norman McKay, a middle-aged man, | looked at Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M V on the Bench at the Police Court this m'orning with one eye. It was his right, the left optic being badly blackAted, swollen and closed. He was charged with; drunkenness and committing mischief by wilfully damaging a window to the extent of 16/, the property of Henry Jiggers and Joseph Noone. / "What lie says is that they threw a brick at him and that it cannoned off his eye," said Mr. Hunt. . i "It might be true that he was hit with the brick, but he afterwards threw jt through the window," said Senior Sergeant Cumniings. "But I think the other man was the best shot." j*. Mr, Hunt smiled. McKay was fined 5/ for being drunk, and on the other charge he was convicted and ordered to make good the damage done.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 8
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158BLACK EYE AND BRICKS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 8
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