“K. O.” FOR STRANGER
FINE FOR UNPROVOKED - ASSAULT “HE ANNOYED ME” ‘'There was no provocation,” said Senior-Sergeant O’Grady, when Edward Lewis Newman was charged at the Police Court this • morning with assault. Newman had knocked out a stranger with one blow. He was fmed £2.
Described as an ironmoulder aged 36, Newman admitted assaulting Frederick Johnston on Saturday. Johnston had already appeared before the court charged with drunkenness. He bore obvious signs of his treatment by Newman. The assault had taken place on the premises of a city hotel, according to the senior-sergeant. There had been no provocation and Newman had knocked Johnston out with one blow Oil the face.
Newman explained that Johnston had been annoying him: “Pulling me about and so on,” he urged. ■* The senior-sergeant added that Newman's last conviction had been for vagrancy at Napier in 1928. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M. fixed default of the £2 fine at three days’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 16
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156“K. O.” FOR STRANGER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 16
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