FEILDING ASSAULT CASE.
TWO MEN DISCHARGED; ONE GETS TWO MONTHS, Palmerston Yesterday. Before Mr Justice Husking, Michael Ronghan, Simmon M’Greal and James Egan, were ('barged with assaulting the Rev. Frederick Stock well at Feilding on I3ih February, and doing him grevious bodily barm. Evidence was given that at the conclushion of a Protestant Political Association meeting a; crowd followed Mr Slock well and other clergymen along I lie sired, and eventually Mr Stoekwell was violently assaulted and received injuries from which be is still suffering. After hearing the evidence for the prosecution, the Judge ordered M’Greal and Egan to be discharged, there being no evidence to connect them with the actual assault. The Judge summed up againsf Ronghan, and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and was sentenced to (wo months’ hard lab-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1828, 18 May 1918, Page 3
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135FEILDING ASSAULT CASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1828, 18 May 1918, Page 3
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