Offwood Offside

NZ Truth, Issue 1190, 20 September 1928, Page 3

Offwood Offside

The defence, nb doubt, would hold that Mrs. Gardner was In bed' with Offwood, but the police did not admit that. "If she was there," commented the chief-detective, "it might be provocation, but riot justification." Magistrate Mosley: "It might-be to my mind. Perhaps you would have don© the same thing yourself." The case for the Crown rested upon the evidence of the assaulted man. William Claude Offwood, who stated that he was a dairy hand and was living apart from his wife. At about a quarter to one on the morning of August 15, he was awakened by a noise m his room. 'He heard Gardner's voice say: "Where's that — nvoman?' 1 That was all Offwood knew of the occurrence until he came to, as he had been knocked insensible by something or somebody. When he regained his senses he was m the room alone and the door" was wedged from the Inside. After being first struck he remembered little except being pulled out *of bed. When, he came to he was dazed and it was . while m this condition, he said, that he made a statement to the police half an hour later. Before Gardner finally left the house he heard Crlbb say: "Come, on George, he's had enough." nniiniiniiHniniiiininniiiiimnirmiiiiiiiiiitiniiiiiiitttiilniuiirmrnniintiitmninmHimiinimimin nitiiiiuiiiiiii;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiit;iiii|iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiinu