AN UNUSUAL CASE.
A FOOLISH ACT.
(Per Press Association.) Invercargill, Saturday. Before Mr MoOprthy, S.M., Cecil Hazlett was charged with striking LieutenantColonel Hawkins across the back with a whip. He was fined £5, the Magistrate refusing to bind tho defendant over to keep the peace as he had made aa apology in Court and had givon his assurance that he would not molest the complainant.
The matter has oxcited some interest locally. Hazlett, who is not a volunteer, was in a restaurant where the annual meeting of a mounted rifle corps was being held on the 25th ultimo. He borrowed a whip from one of the guests, and as Hawkins passed him gomg out gave him one backhanded stroke aoross the back with the whip. He had previously done the same thing to the owner of the whip, and also to another person. Defendant had published an apology in thq local papers in whioh he described tho assault as “ horsewhipping.” This was held to be an aggravation of the offeDce by tho oomplainant. Marked newspapers played a part in the case, and a writ for libel, claiming £6OO for damages, has beon issued against a brother officer of Hawkins, Who wrote on the subject of tbo assault to tho loeal paper with some warmth.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1567, 25 September 1905, Page 2
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