BRUTAL BEHAVIOUR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 156, 27 July 1909, Page 3

BRUTAL BEHAVIOUR

"W I " m, — — — 'y . KRTACK ON A SALVATION AB.MY ,*",» ' OFFICER. ; j. WBLL-DESEKVED PUNISHMENT. 9f Telegraph.—Press Association. 1 ' I Greymouth, Last Night'. ,» 'At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Win. »■ Btttbbs was charged with committing an '. 4 assault ob Thomas H. Allison, an officer ■ Of the Salvation Army, and using gross- < /,ly obscene language in the presence of f females, anil damaging instruments. Evidence was given that the Army was holding an open-air meeting when ac- / , tused, Who wag the -worse of liquor, entered the rjng and "began to take ; He had a knife inhiß hand, and jawing put out of the "ring struck Officer Allison on the face, making .a •My gash and punctured, the iustru- < fflent, using horrible language. The Magistrate, in giving l his decision, (Md the charge should be altered to one -,. of common assault. He remarked that * Members of the Army had exercised as-" * toniiShing tact in dealing with accused, < dealing gently with him and acting with ft desire to prevent his being arrestedor creating any further' annoyance. Jhe organisation was one that was doing an -.immense amount of good all over the world, and their social schemes were be- * tag carried out with; the greatest amount of success, that showed that „ they were deserving of every respect, as * they reached the masses of the people in '. «-way which no other form of religious It *ody could touch. He did not think this was a case for a fine at all. Accused '- «ag a young man of good appearance Md apparently with a good record. jet he could annoy the Army in the ■way he had done by using filthy lan- _- guage to the girls who were' devoting .? »a their spare time and some of them •II their Uvea to the good work the •V Army was doing. Neither was the as- * nutt so trivial a one as alleged, as had ;, rthe knif e strudk AMpon about two ■>• vM«« n «« to the left it might have meant --."§» J f» s oi aa cye- n «'*s v not aecus- *": t * Ihat it was not more serious. f '* JfOr the obscene language accused would K he sentenced to 14; days' imprisonment, wit* hard labor, for the assault 7 days, 4 , and for damaging the property days, . 'the sentences to be cumulative, or a month in. an.