UNPROVOKED ASSAULT
HOODLUMS AT DANCE STIFF FINE INFLICTED (Prom Our Occn Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Without the slightest provocation, at 12.40 a.m. on Christmas morning, Charles Edward Gray Tuck, aged 19, walked up to another young man named Seddon Sims, and gave expression to his feelings by swinging a hard, closed fist to the latter’s jaw. The incident took place at Frankton about half an hour after the close of a dance, and Tuck was promptly arrested for assault. He appeared before Justices of the Peace yesterday morning, when he was described as being one of a number of hoodlums who had congregated outside the hall the worse for drink. The inflicted a fine of £5, in default (jne month’s imprisonment, stating that the penalty should be a warning to the offender and his associates.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 237, 27 December 1927, Page 11
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134UNPROVOKED ASSAULT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 237, 27 December 1927, Page 11
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