"RUDE AND ABUSIVE."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 5

"RUDE AND ABUSIVE."

ASSAULT ON BAILIFF. INDIANS PLEAD GUILTY. ENTRANCE TO HOUSE RESENTED. Probably the next time Julius Parth, a bailiff, has business to transact at the home of Indians, he will be more careful in his manner of approach to talk business. What happened when he called on Joram Bhoguan (38) and Bhara Gaga (28) was told at the Police Court this morning when these two dusky sons of India stood in the dock on charges of having assaulted Parth. Mr. R. A. Singer appeared for the accused, both of whom pleaded guilty. Senior Sergeant Cummings said that Parth, a bailiff acting for a firm of motor car importers, went to the house occupied by the Indians at 5.30 one afternoon recently, to obtain the balance owing by one of them on a motor truck, or to take possession of the vehicle. Getting no response when he knocked at the door, Parth entered their dwelling, i Both accused told him to go, and ejected him, and it was alleged that Bhoguan used a tomahawk on him. "The Indians say that the bailiff was rude and abusive to them, and they were probably right, too," said Mr. Cummings. Parth, a middle-aged man, then walked to the front of the court to claim £1 1/ medical expenses. His head was swathed in bandages: Mr. Singer: These two Indians are ordinarily perfectly good, law-abiding citizens. Gaga had nothing to do with any truck. The first attack came from Parth, who had no right to enter the bedroom of the Indians, as at the time negotiations were proceeding between the motor car firm and my office. To show the bailiff's wrongful act the motor car firm had accepted less than the amount of the judgment, and a settlement has been effected. Parth has been paid £5 by my clients for the injuries he received. He was not struck by any tomahawk. He sustained his injuries through falling on something. "I think your clients have done enough," said Mr. Hunt to counsel. "If any man goes into a bedroom, as did this bailiff, he is likely to get a knock on the head." The accused were each convicted and ordered to pay costs. Senior Sergeai.t Cummings then said that had it not been for the fact that Parth sustained serious injuries, the police would never have taken action.