AFFRAY IN CAFE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 9

AFFRAY IN CAFE

Bench Rejects Plea For

Returned Man

"This Court is not going to be alleetod bv pleas that the accused is. a returned soldier. The excuse, was made frequently after the hist war and 1 hope it will not imppen this time; it is a slander on a great many soldiers." commented Mr. Stout', SAL, in the Magistrates’ Court. Wellington, yesterday, when shell-shocn received during the present war was stat--d bv counsel 10 be an extenuating Circumstance in mischief committed in a L'onrtemiy I’lace cafe. Alichael Pair ck Hyun, billhinl marker, aged 29, pleaded guilty to damaging a plate glass window and a door valued at £«»0. ‘I I i’oiu HlO liat of previous conviction# it look# as it. lie was addicted,to the use of violence before he lyent to the war." added the magistrate. Evidence was given by the police vl a dispute between Hie Greek proprietor ot the cafe aud accused, in which a chair and a hatchet were used as weapons, but whether tlu’v were belli wielded by Ryan or whether he look up the chair lor defence against the hatchet, was in dispute. Sentence of three mouths hard labour was imposed.