ASSAULT CASE
SEQUEL TO DRUNKEN BRAWL. At the local S.M. Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., S. Robinson was charged by. the police with assaulting W. Tamplin. Mr. Bergin appeared for defendant who entered a plea of guilty. Constable Owen said that on the afternoon of the 23rd May defendant, Tamplin and a number of men were drinking in a local hotel. Late in the afternoon Tamplin left for home, intoxicated. That evening Robinson went down to Tamplin's house, where he picked a quarrel with him and knocked Tamplin about pretty badly. A doctor lntd to be called and it was discovered that Tamplin had sustained facial abrasions and an injury to his ribs which kept him away from work for a week. Mr Bergin said the whole affair was the final act in a drunken brawl. Defendant was a married man with a young family and had consented to a prohibition order being taken out against himself. Defendant was convicted and fined £4, £2 of which was to be paid over to Tamplin and a prohibition order was issued against defendant.
A prohibition order was also taken out against defendant’s brother, C. Robinson.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3650, 11 June 1927, Page 3
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196ASSAULT CASE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3650, 11 June 1927, Page 3
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