HAZY ABOUT IT ALL

NZ Truth, Issue 1262, 6 February 1930, Page 11

HAZY ABOUT IT ALL

_ + Was She Struck, or Did She Fall? (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) APPARENTLY with the purpose of ** having a day out Mary Alice Murphy came into Christchurch, from Yaldhurst, where she was living with a rabbit-trapper named Strella Frederick. Guy, and set out to empty brimful beakers of bubbling 1 beer. Then along came Guy. He met Murphy m Tuam Street, and after an altercation between them the lady was picked up out of the gutter with a bruised and bleeding 1 eye. The sequel to the affair was the appearance of the pair m the Christchurch Magistrate's Court when Murphy was charged with being drunk. Guy was charged with assault., Murphy said that when she met Guy m the city he said something to her which she did not like. She continued talking, and men* tioned something about Guy being all right when he was sober. > Senior -sergeant T. Shanahan interrupted her, asking what had occurred when they met. / "I fell m the gutter," she said, "and the man who picked me up told me that Guy had struck me. I can't remember whether he hit me." Murphy had a cut under her eye, and Senior-sergeant Shanahan asked her whether she sustained it when she fell m the gutter. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M.: She ran up against a post. ' Guy said that he did not hit th'e woman. A police sergeant and a constable said that Murphy had complained to them of having been struck by Guy. Evidently Mr. Mosley considered that the couple could settle their own differences, for he told Guy to get out of the box. . The case was dismissed. Murphy was fined 10/- for drunkenness. „..■■■