TAXI DRIVER GAOLED

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1928, Page 1

TAXI DRIVER GAOLED

ATTACKED ALKN WITH HAMMER. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 22. In the police court, John Tail, taxi driver, was sentenced to one months imprisonment for assaulting Captain G. A. Humphreys Davies, and fined £lO, in default one months imprisonment, for assaulting Stanley Austin Carr, a prominent. Auckland business man and ex- president ol the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association. The assaults took place at. Clevedou on Sunday. September 9. When Tait who was with a woman, was asked by Humphreys Daviess il he knew he was on nrivate property. Tait replied he could go whore he liked, as he was a Government Inspector in the Lores In Department. Tait later attacked both Humphreys Davies and Carr with a luMnmer. threatening to ‘‘do them in and burn the house. When Humphreys Davies evaded some of the blows. Tait asked another man, who had come up in the meantime, "hat hate von done with the gun?” Humphreys Davies said he considered they owed their lives to his wile, who tried to restrain Tait from following them into the house, and told him they were both subject to severe heart attacks. The Afagistrate. Mr Hunt, said ii was a very bad assault. Accused had behaved like a blackguard and terrorised the household lor the whole Sundav afternoon.