UNPROVOKED ASSAULT
HIS FOURTH CONVICTION.
“I plea'd guilty to fighting, but not to assault,” said 'Edward Patrick Brogan ...(37),. . labourer, when - -chargedin the Police Court, Auckland, with' usaulting Alfred Albert Terry.
“There was no fighting. .It was nothing else but assault without provocation,” -. said Detective Sergeant K'ellv.
.Terry said he was 'standing in Svmonds Street at 5 o'clock last evening talking to a young woman when accused accosted him. He ignored Brogan, who then pulled him aside and struck him on the face.
/Similar evidence-was given by a young woman and also a constable.
The magistrate remarked that Brogan Iliad been three times previously Convicted of assault. ‘‘Yes, he .i s a cantankerous man when in liquor,” said -Mr Kelly. Brogan was fined £2, or seven days’, imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 6
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128UNPROVOKED ASSAULT Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 6
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