PUNISHING A SCURRILOUS PAEAGEAPHIST.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 1, 17 June 1882, Page 3

PUNISHING A SCURRILOUS PAEAGEAPHIST.

The action brought in the Supreme Court at Adelaide by Joseph Charles Augustus^ajodJe- &g£tiTSt~%s**rs Von "Doussa, Pade, Bom and Ha^T&scU to recover £1000 damages fyr an assault committed on him by defendants, was gcpncluded o i Friday, says the S.A. AdVertiser, of the 20th ultimo, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, damages £100. The circumstances of the assault, which was committed at Hadudorf in November last, are preLty well known. A great deal of annoyance had been felt in the township because of certain scurrilous pai-ajraphs appearing in a paper called the Adelaide Bulletin and Lantern, reflecting on many of the inhabitants, and threats ffere held out that when the author of them was caught he would be punished. The paragraphs continued to appear for some in ntiis, until the.defendant, VonDossa, thinking he had ascertained the offender, informed the other defendants and some of the other residents that he was going to thrash the Bulletin correspondent and invited them to join the operation. According, on i Monday, the 21st November, a message was sent by Von Dossa to Eundle stating that Frank Ide, a lad in the employ of Von Doussa, who was believed to pc implicated in the writing of the objectionable paragraphs, wished to see him. Eundle went to the post office, was met by Ide outside, and was received with the cheering remark, "You are in for it, Joe." Von Doussa then appeared on the scene armed with a hunting whip, and on ihe plaintiff .going inside You Doussa made a short preparatory harangue, and afterwards commenced an application of the whip about Eundle's legs. The youth was next pushed outside, when Pade. Bom, and Haytread were invited to join in the same method of punishment — a request they appear to have very readily complied with. On the plaintiff averring that he had " had enough," a rope was procured and placed around his body, and in this fashion he was escorted down the main street, and introduced to " the various people met with en route as the Bulletin correspondent." After visiting the establishment of a Mr Willmer, whose infirmity of bad eyes had been ridiculed in the "society" paper in question, Eundle received a parting cut with the whip, and was released from his somewhat irksome bonds His cup however, waß not yet full, for later on Von Doussa met him, and, in a mild address, advised him that his " career was run" in Hadudorf, and that he had better " clear out." This was the finishing touch, and nothing i remained to the inhabitants but to gossip over the proceedings until this trial came on. The jury i» turned the verdict mentioned above.* . "