SKIN AND HAIR WERE FLYING

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 8

SKIN AND HAIR WERE FLYING

— ♦ Annoyed With Lady, Auctioneer

Tore Fur Coat In Shreds

EXPENSIVE OUTING FOR ROBERTSON

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Hearing loud cries of "He's killing' him, he's .killing* him!" m a shrill female voice, the inhabitants of Manurewa stopped, looked and listened, and were rewarded by the sight of two men locked m a fierce struggle, while from one of two cars standing by ah* apparently hysterical female was telling the neighborhbod that its usual peacefulness was being disturbed.

THE sequel was heard at the Otahuhu Magistrate's Court, two days later, when James Robert Robertson was charged with being intoxicated while m charge of a car on the Great South Road, and Ruth Giese, twenty-two-year-old milliner, of Auckland, was convicted for drunkenness and fined 10/-. Robertson has but lately retired from active participation m the trade of auctioneer and land agent and is well known m Auckland. Apparently Robertson and the girl drove down to Drury fdr dinner, and about 6.30 Giose asked him to drive her back to the city as she had an appointment to keep. Robertson refused to do so and the girl persuaded some stranger to start back with her m Robertsons car. Very soon after the departure," Robertson discovered the double loss of his partner and his car, andy obtaining another vehicle, -started m .pursuit. Along the Great South Road raced quarry and pursuer until the latter caught up with the lady at Manurewa. Herding-: the object' of .his chase towards the side of the road, Robertson succeeded m scaring the driver sufficiently to make him pull up. Unfortunately for > them, they were travelling at such a rate that the brakes squealed ear-splittingly and aroused the whole neighborhood. Immediately the cars came to a standstill Robertson leapt' out and seized the lady by her very fine black fur coat, on -which he proceeded to vent his rage. Ripping it off her flinching form, he

tore it skin from skin, scattering portions of it over the road and strewing the remainder about the car. When the unknown man, who had befriended the stranded girl, took up the cudgels on her behalf, Robertson transferred his attentions from the inanimate to the animate, and was apparently trying to treat him m similar fashion when Robert Foi'bes, whose attention had been engaged by the shrieking brakes and the shouting female, arrived on the scene. As assistant traffic inspector to the Borough Council, Forbes enquired as to whom the cars belonged, and requested Robertson to move his vehicle. He was promptly caught round the waist and dragged about the road, while his opponent claimed that his car had been stolen by the girl. ..■..■' Feeling that the sobriety of those present was not all that it should be, Forbes summoned Constable Maloney, of Papatoetoe, who promptly arrested both Robertson and the girl, the other man having" escaped under cover of darkness. When asked by the constable to examine his captures, Dr. C. B. Jenkins, of Manurewa, had no hesitation m x pronouncing them to be well under -the influence of liquor, but, although advised not to dosoi Robertson Insisted on driving the girl back to town. At the conclusion of this evidence, Mr. F. H. L'evien, - S.M., had no hesitation m fining Robertson >£ 25 and ln cancelling his license for the remainder of its currency. It is difficult to understand why the Auckland daily papers did not publish reports of the case.