SUPREME COURT.
MRS DIFFIN ACQUITTED,
Per Press Association. Christchurch, last night,
At tho Suprome Court to day Annie Diflin was found not guilty on a charge of having assaulted her son with intent to do him bodily harm. Tho boy had been told by his mother to go a message, and had returned an annoying answer to his mother, who had a carving knife in her hand. She lot it go, and tho boy received a serious wound in the side. It was urged in dofence that the baudlo was slippery, and tho knife had glided accidentally from Mrs Diftin’s band. Archibald Blue was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for assaulting a man with intent to rob, His Honor said accused was one of that dangerous class that loitered around hotels awaiting an opportunity to rob drunken men.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1049, 17 November 1903, Page 3
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