ASSAULT CHARGE
AGAINST YOUNG MAN
WAITRESS’S ALLEGATION
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
INVERCARGILL, July 24
An extraordinary ease, jn which an hotel waitress alleged that- a single man, with whom she had been friendly, had threatened to take her life, was heard in the Police Court to-day, before Air bevvy, 'S.AI. Joseph John Hollam, aged 28, was proceeded against on a charge laid by the police of assaulting the waitress, by threatening to take her life.
After lengthy evidence -had been heard, the Magistrate dismissed the information, stating that insufficient evidence had been brought forward, but adding that he was satisfied that many of the facts of -the affair between the parties had not been disclosed.
The accused denied, that he had suggested that he would like to kill the girl.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1931, Page 5
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130ASSAULT CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1931, Page 5
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