CONDUCTOR ASSAULTED
\ SCUFFLE ON TRAM. AUCKLAND, July. 14. “A man cannot help getting annoyed When the tram carries him past his stop,” said Arthur Cornelius Tong, labourer, aged.- 58; who- wascharged in the Auckland Police Court,-, with assaulting. Charles Lane, a tram conductor. He p’eaded guilty, j Detective-Sergeant Kelly said accused had stepped out of-.the rear compartment of a .tram the previous day ■and- had started pulling-the ;communi-.cation-cord. ■. The train conductor had Itried -to stop him, and accused hud |then struck him over the mouth. -A iconstable had heprw’cd t--. be- there. | Accused expressed -sorrow at los-ng ,hte temper, and said he thought the (conductor had bieen inadvertently struck in the course of a scuffle over the cord. ' - .. . J “I have no do-11 that the blow was j not; an) * accident, ” i said Mr W. R. .Mo* i Keen, S.M., in convicting Tong , and j fining him' £3l “To-be'carried past I your. -stop is -no excuse for ’ assaulting ia conductor;” • ~-i „ . '
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 8
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