BROTHERLY LOVE.
- Fraternal affection was powerfully exemplified on Saturday last at the Invercargill Police Court. A man, named Peter Hunt, was prosecuted by his brother James for assault. The Bench advised them to settle their dispute out of Court, but they declined. The evidence of James and his wife was to the effect that Peter knocked James down and kicked him. Defendant then made the following statement: —“ Well, your Worship, I want to get this affair settled right away. I was not ‘tight’ as my brother says. Wc had both been drinking the day before, and he asked me round to have a cup of tea. Directly 1 got inside the house, he commenced kicking up a row with mo. He wont at me with a saw, and set his boy at me with a poker. I went about-ship then pretty smart. T seat Home for him, your Worship. (Complainant : It’s a lie ; go to the office and see, your Worship.) If he does not got on in the colony after me bringing him out it’s not my fault. Ho struck me first. (Complainant: It is false.) Ho was drinking the day before the row, ami never went to his work the following day, and he has brought this case to screen himself, and now you have the right of it, your Worship.” His Worship : I’m afraid you were both tipsy. Defendant That’s about it; as to that bit of a mark on my brother’s face, 1 never did it. His Worship : How did it get there ? Defendant : The day before the row he got drunk and had to crawl to his home on his hands and knees, and he grazed Ids forehead against the kerbing. His Worship: When you cannot agree, why do yon go to your brother’s house ? Defendant: Because he asked mo ; I’m in the habit of going for pig’s meat and such like, but never, stop unless asked. His Worship: I shall dismiss the information. You must keep away from one another. It is impossible for me to say how the quarrel began. Yon say you want the matter settled ; it appears to me it will settle in one of you going to goal if you don’t keep away from one another.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2159, 19 February 1880, Page 3
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376BROTHERLY LOVE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2159, 19 February 1880, Page 3
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