DANGEROUS DUO.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 6

DANGEROUS DUO.

FRACAS IN DIXON STREET. As the result of a disturbances in the Central Supper Rooms, Dixon Street, on December (i last, Thomas Blue, n heav-ily-built man, and Minnio Brown, a de-termined-looking woman, with a very noticeablo black eye, appeared to answer charges of having assaulted John Crawford M'lntosh. Evidence was given to the effect that complainant, who is a cook at tho Mount Cook Polico Barracks, wa, set upon by Blue, and then by Brown, who struck him with a glass, inflicting three wounds on the head and two other smaller wounds. Blue had supplemented his attentions by tho word "scab," whilo tho "lady" with tho black eyo had prefaced her attack with tho glass with tho words "Take that, you dirty cur." Both had j 1 been before tho _ Court previously on a number of occasions. Bluo was fined £3, with the option of one month's imprisonment, and ordered to pay costs £1 55., while Brown was sentenced to ono month's imprisonment. Just beforo leaving tlio doelc tho latter shook her fist menacingly at M'lntosh, and gave 'him a look which boded ill for him when her month's enforced retirement from public life had expired.