FIRST LYTTELTON CASES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1915, 25 November 1913, Page 9

FIRST LYTTELTON CASES.

O.MD MAN GA DLEI). Illy Te-l©2r<uoli~Pre«« iAssoolallon.) Chrlstehureh, November 24. There was a big crowd! of watc-rsiders in the Magistrate's Coni't to-day, when Mr. Bailey, S.M.. board cases of as* In tho case «gi(k|«t Edward Tat-..

neil, a watersidor who struck a pantryman of tho Putecna. ill the streets, evidence was given by the po.lice that Tatnc!l had kicked the man. Tatnell admitted tho striking, but denied the kicking. Ho said that ho had asked t'lio pantryman for his union card. .Sam-' ucl Rogers said that Tatnell did not kick tho pantryman. Tatnoll was a man of good character, and a thirty- yearn' resident. Accused was sentenced to a month's imprisonment mid ordered to find sureties that ii<> would keep the peace lor six months. James Garner, a watersidor, fori striking one of rim West-port Coal Company's permanent hands, asking_ him When lie was coming out, and offering to ficjlit 'him, and also calling Mm a "wiab," was bound over in sureties to keop tho peace for six months. ltodge-rs', a watersider, charged .with kicking the pantryman by Tatnell, was remanded until Wednesday next. Bail was allowed, but the man was rearrested immediately after giving evidence in which he denied having kicked the pantryman.