PEACE-MAKER PUNCHED
AFFRAY AT HOTEL GAOL FOR AGGRESSOR Prom Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. A fracas outside the Grand Hotel, Frankton, early on Saturday evening resulted in the appearance of the combatants in the Police Court at Hamilton today, before Mr. Wyvern Wilson S.M. With a black eye and cut lip bearing mute testimony to the violence of the affray, Hugh Bell, 40, an employee of the Vacuum Oil Company, pleaded guilty to drunkenness and fighting in a public place, and William Buckley, 48, a fitter in the Railway Department, pleaded guilty to fighting and assaulting William Holmes. According to the poliee. Buckley was sitting on the verandah of the hotel when Bell shaped up. Holmes, who is 60 years of age, intervened, but his peace-making efforts were rewarded by a violent blow from Buckley, which felled him to the ground. The magistrate held that Bell’s drunken habits were the cause of the trouble and that Buckley was an unwilling participant. Bell was sentenced to 14 days’ gaol on the charge of drunkenness, and fined £2 for fighting. Buckley was fined £1 for assaulting Holmes, and was convicted and discharged on the charge of fighting.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 10
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195PEACE-MAKER PUNCHED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 905, 24 February 1930, Page 10
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