HORSEWHIP AND A SCUFFLE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1007, 23 December 1910, Page 4

HORSEWHIP AND A SCUFFLE.

A LADY'S TELEPHONE MESSAGE. (By Telegraph.—Special Corresnondent.) Feilding, December 22. Albert Bishop and Alfred Eead,. two young men, were charged at the S.M. Court to-day with assaulting Robert Sanson at Sanson on November 18. : The informant stated that he with his wifo and daughter had gone to the residence of Bishop's father to settle a disturbance which had arisen between Bishop and witness's daughter. When" they got to the gate of Bishop's place they found it wired, up, and the two defendants there with their coats off. Witness-got out to open' the gate, and while he was doing so Bishop attacked him from behind. Bead assisted Bishop in tho assault. Witness .and Bishop had been on friendly terms up to the time of the quarrel with the daughter, Witness's daughter had rung up the hotel, and asked the prbprietor not to give Bishop (with whom she was keeping c .company) too much "lemonade ami ! sarssparilln." At the gate witness used his whip on Bishop, after he (Sanson) had been, struck.,twice .with a strap by Jfcaa, while Bishop hold him at the finish. Witness was on his back in tho ditch with Bishop on top of hiin, and Read threatened him with a strap. Mrs. Sanson gave evidence that Bishop had insulted her daughter, and she corroborated her husband's evidence with regard to improper language. Albert Bishop stated that ho had told Annie Sanson to mind her own business. Ho would have nothing more to do with her in consequence of her having rung up the hotel. He did not use any insulting language to her. Ho afterwards heard that Sanson was going to his fathej to make a disturbance, and so he and Read wired up the gate. When Sanson arrived witness invited him (Sanson) to get oiit of the trap, and give witness tho thrashing which had been promised. ■When Sanson got out of the trap ho struck witness with the whip. The magistrate (Mr. A. D. Thomson) said that the defendants had taken an altogether improper attitude in the matter. Tho informant had taken a reasonable and proper course when ho had a complaint made to him as to his daughter being insulted. Ho endeavoured to settle it quietly, and the defendants had no business to endeavour to stop him. Each defendant was convicted and", fined £.1, with lCs. 9d. costs.