WARRING WOOLLY WAIN.

NZ Truth, Issue 64, 8 September 1906, Page 4

WARRING WOOLLY WAIN.

Boozy Battle-Banging Barbw.

That ChristVhurch barber, Stephen Wain, a young fellow with fluffy hair, who has been working m Oxford Terrace, has been ifj dire trouble lately. And it serves him right. He s+oxid bis trial at the last Supreme

Court sittings for maliciously damagina; a window belonging to one Rosini, who keeps a tobacconist's shop m the same street, and the jury found him not <nrilty. That was the case m which it was asked (and admitted) that Rossini had been fined for keeping a "drum" m Auckland. It was then alleged that he had done nothin^ of the same sort since. However, Wain appears to have gone alonf to Rossini's shop and used insulting words to the missus and assaulted Louis Rossini, who has a moustache as long as the Gospels. Wain alleged at court that he was the assaulted nerson. The Rossini la#y alleged that on the night m miestion she was m her husband's shop, and heard someone knocking on the window. Wain was outside when she opened the door and he called . her vile names and actually hit out with his hands and

TRIED TO BIPF HER. She called her husband, who was m the next room, and seeing an old aoouaintance m Wain he punched him, and Wain punched back. The barber then cleared out, but when she went out to admire the stars, something, he was there and gave her a punch. Nice conduct, truly, if the lady can be 1 believed. Her. evidence was given through an interpreter, but people who know Mrs Rossini say that she can speak English excellently. Why tlie lady adopted the interpreter business isn't known. However, she said the fellow was intoxicated, if that's any redeeming feature and writer don't believe it is, m m fact he's sure about it. The beak found, after hearing evidence as to Wain's alleged

ASSAULT UPON ROSSINI, that the oharges were disproved, but he fined him a quid on the charge of using insulting language towards the missus. He was lucky. But m another case he fell right m beautifully. He appears to have acquired a penchant for hitting people with '-bottles. On the same night as the above mentioned Wain met Mr Richard Edmonds, of the Provincial Hotel, and banged him over the head and the cheek with glassware usually found m . hotels. Edmonds had a nasty cut m the cheek, and Dr. Shone, who was called upon to examine the wounds, said that it would be a permanent injury. Under the circumstances the beak said that he would commit the accused for trial. He pleaded not Pruilty, and was released on his own recognisance of £50. . >.