STRUCK A WOMAN

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 82, 31 December 1934, Page 3

STRUCK A WOMAN

Labourer Convicted Striking a woman and then struggling with a constable who intervened, led to George Alfred Christie, labourer, appearing in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, on Saturday. Messrs. D. IT. Edgar and 11. IL Seaton. J.P.’s, who were on the Bench, convicted him and fined him 11 on the assault charge, ordering him to pay 12/- witnesses’ expenses, mid also fined him £2. or one month’s imprisonment, on the charge of resisting arrest. Senior-Sergeant D. J. O’Neill, who prosecuted for the police, said Christie lived with Mr. and Mrs. Goulstone, in Hopper Street. On Friday evening, on his arrival there, he was in nn intoxicated and argumentative mood. He was told to leave the house, but he continued to use offensive language until Mr. Goulstone left to find a constable. Before the constable arrived Christie went out of the house, and when he returned Mrs. Goulstone stood with a broom trying tp prevent his entry. Constable Alan Wilson said he arrived at the house in time to see Christie strike Mrs. Goulstone. The constable intervened, and Christie attacked him. saying he had no right on the premises, and when put under arrest he resisted .and caused quite a scene in the street. Christie pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, but denied having struck Mrs. Goulstone. He said he had a lump on his head as a result of a blow from the broom, and lie had merely attempted to take the broom away from her.