ASHBURTON ASSAULT CASE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 29 April 1911, Page 5

ASHBURTON ASSAULT CASE

FRACAS AT A MEETING. A TRIVIAL CASE. By T-eiepaph.—Press AsMciatfen Ashburton Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, before Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., Charles Reid charged Hugo Friedlander with assaulting him by striking him with a walking stick at a meeting of the Ashburton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on April 3. Counsel for Friedlander made an apology to Reid for what had been done, or at least he reiterated a public apology that Friedlander had made at a recent public meeting, that he regjetted that, although he had been insulted, lie had not acted in a more gentlemanly and dignified way. - Counsel for the prosecution declined to accept this, and would not allow the case to drop. The evidence given was & recapitulation of that published of the fracas, and in giving judgment the Magistrate said that the whole incident was very trivial, and that 99 per cent of men who were repeatedly called liars by another man would have acted aar Friedlander had done. Reid's dignity had been hurt more than his body, and he would dismiss the case under section «2 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1008, defendant to pay costs.