Alcoholic Argument Leads To Gaol Sentence For Assault
An alcoholic argument about a pennyworth of matches led to a month’s gaol for Rewi Ruru, aged 23, who was brought before Justices in the Police Court at Whakatane yesterday and pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Arthur Stewart on Saturday.
Messrs C. G. Lucas and I. B. Hubbard were on the Bench, and Sergeant M. Farrell, for the police, explained that Ruru, partly under the influence, accosted Stewart, who was allegedly not quite sober either, on the street on Saturday and asked for
a match. Stewart handed over a box, and Ruru struck him in the face when he asked for it back. Stewart is an elderly rpan. Mr G. Otley, for the defendant, said both men were under the influence and Ruru merely slapped Stewart’s face. The marks were caused by the old man’s falling against a building. Comment from the Bench was that there were too '"many such cases, that it was cowardly of Ruru to assault a man so much his senior, that the liquor was no excuse, and" that that sort of thing should be put down. Ruru will do his month at the local gaol.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 1, 25 November 1947, Page 5
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