BLOWS IN A THEATRE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 942, 8 October 1910, Page 5

BLOWS IN A THEATRE.

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(By: Telegraph.-tPress Association.)'

;>; Ashland, October: 7. As the result/of an, : unrehearsed episode at the' Tivoli. Theatre on Tuesday, the-manager-of that- house of entertainment,'. Fabian ~De'; who'i. is known under -tb'e-stage name of: "Hal •Dayne,"" was charged.,at '■ the Police to-day-, .with':.' assaulting Pat Reece,;-comedian,,;the latter,prayinji that defendant be-bound' over" to .'keep the : ;peaee.j.V-:>'' : -('''::.:',- , v;;-.;..;.-' '.

: -It was' ; stated :that ; ; Reece had left J the; theatre on' Monday, last, and he ; .went 'to; get certain wages which were due to him. De L'lsle denied that ho owed■. the; wages; whereupon Beeco : said liar.'*-This was the only provocation,'given, and, defendant 1 being .something' of a - pugilist, 1 '.' 'hauled off,'-' .and struck- complainant three ' blackening'his eye.;',''. :'. For the defence, it -was alleged that :.. tie complainant - used -bad; language, .and had endeavoured to get the other -artists to join in a strike..; ' ;' ■ ,' After evidence had been called' for the -defence, the magistrate said that, looking at all sides of, the case,' it was hardly-credible that' informant had merely-called defendant' a. liar. TJnder the circumstances,* his Worship;'thought that many, men would have acted similarly to' .the defendant. Defendant would be convicted, and fined 10s., but no order would be made as to costs.