GRIEVOUS ASSAULT.
Dunedin, This day.
At Nascby on Wednesday Adam Scott was committed for trial for assaulting with intent to do bodily harm, William Hayes, an eccentric individual, who is known on the goldfiolds as "Happy Bill." The affray arose out of a drinking bout. The evidence, which was somewhat unsatisfactory, the principal witnesses having been muddied with drink at the time of the occurrence, went to show that a savage assault was committed, in which a butcher's knife and a stirrup iron ".gured prominently. Dr. Whitton, who examined Hayes, found several wounds about the hands and cheek, evidently caused by stabs of a knife, also a scar across the throat, such as would be caused by drawing a knife across it. Hayes remembered little or nothing of what occurred. The prisoner is comparatively a new arrival in the colony, and does not bear a good reputation. Ho is a big, powerful man, while Hayes is the reverse.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4113, 26 September 1884, Page 3
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158GRIEVOUS ASSAULT. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4113, 26 September 1884, Page 3
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