DUEL WITH SWORDS
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
(Australian Press Association)
(United Service)
(Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 17
The story of a duel with swords between an ex-Rritish lArmy officer and a former subordinate was related at the City Police Court, when John Thompson, aged forty, was charged with indicting actual bodily harm on William Gibb. The police gave evidence that they found two swords blood-stained in a house at Paddington. —id blood on the floor and bed dot lies. Thompson was lying on the bed.
Gibb denied that he challenged Thompson to duel and added, it was only a friendly light. The Colonel and T would not hurt each other. 'Roth fought: in the Groat War. Gibb said he was a retired Welfare Officer from New Zealand. "We both went into a. newspaper shop together. Thompson threw a bag of eggs at me. I went borne and Thompson came borne later comparatively sober. He exclaimed- -“Jimmy Gibb you are a. dead man.’’ We tlien commenced to fight with swords wherein Gibb was wounded on the arms. Thompson's version was that he drew a sword in self-defence. Thompson was committed for trial.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1928, Page 5
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194DUEL WITH SWORDS Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1928, Page 5
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