ILL-ADVISED ACTION.
CONSTABLE CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.
(Per Press Asßociation.)
Blenheim, last night. In the Magistrate’s Court a young man named John Foley proceeded against a pcl : ce oonatable on a charge of assault alleged to have been committed on the occasion oi an open air addrcs3 delivered | in Blenheim on a reoent evening by John Ho : kle. Foley complained that while standing in the crowd of listeners the constable caught hold of him and pulled him some distmce without The constable gave evidence that feeling ran high in the crowd, which numbered about four hundred. Two young men started bickering, and Foley was apparently about to lake patt in the row when witness stopped him. The magistrate said the information was ill-advised, and dismissed it, a'ljwmg defendant £1 19s oosts,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1651, 18 January 1906, Page 2
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