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PRICE OF REMARK IN COURT AUCKLAND, November 24.
. Because he was not given his tea when he asked for it at 4 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Alwin Furnass Bagshaw, a wharf labourer, aged thir-ty-eight, struck an old lady who keeps the boardinghouse where lie stayed. He broke, her glasses and knocked her down., . Now Bagshaw is in gaol. Bagshaw appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court t! is morning, charged with assaulting Mrs Nellie Hare: by striking her in the face with his hand and with damaging a pair of spectacles valued at £4 4s. Ho pleaded not guilty to both charges. “Bagshaw was in a - dirty drunken condition.” said Sergeant Clark, who arrested accused. “He was in such a quarrelsome/ condition that he would have hit anything.” “Y,es, well we’ll hit him now,” said the Magistrate. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that Bagshaw ha.d four previous convictions for drunkenness.
The accused was fined £5, with the /liternative of fourteen days, on the first charge and was ordered to pay Mamacros mi the second.’’
“All right. T’ll take it out.” said Bagshaw as he left the dock.” “Fourteen days extra on the' second charge,” said the Magistrate.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1930, Page 3
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