CALLED A GERMAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 4

CALLED A GERMAN.

i SEQUEL TO AX ASSAULT. } MUSICIAX'S XATIONALrrY PROVED. 1 ' i By Telegraph.—Press Association.' Hamilton, Last Night. ' An altercation in the dining-room of the Hamilton Hotel one evening Jul , week formed the basis of a charge of > assault against Arthur Coe, a well- , known share-broker, of Auckland, by . .loliiin Wielacrt, one of Auckland's 'leading musicians and leader of the Auek- . land Orchestral Society. The evidence showed that for some years prior to the outbreak of the war the complainant was known as Herr Wielacrt a title which had been given in by George Musgrove, when touring «ith the lattcr's companies 'in Austral* b a Since the declaration of the war, I'otn. the complainant and his wife who ;yas a native of Southland, New Zeanova,,oUZ >"•" S, "- ,ip<,tf ' ,, i 0 "»'* «• anil Wi i 7 I''"* T* takm for Ge ™*™. and \\ lo )a tr on lus return from Engf™ u *7 b tlme "£° advertised the [net that he was born in Holland, of "elßian parents. ' enten,l lo t , i ;lfty r e -' Cnl,ls la,t c ™Plainant to,, 7 it!?° '''""lK-wom of the Hamilf W™ aml 1 t0 ? < a S<mt aIon K si <>° M ' Dnlt?' a A ",'' k,nm ' fr ' en, «- Wth Air. Dalton was the defendant Coe to Whom Mr. Dalton introduced wictaert Coe, accepted the introduction verv un Siaciously, and merely grunted in re spouse to A little later a discussion arose „™i .e.war ami the sinking of " Z g££ reX th,! 01 ,"" ' l ( ''" rn,an Wielacr t slatLfw-*,''" /'" arose and stepped Wielaert in the face, knocking ' I'm pince-nc* to the other . de of the room, and f ollmvi tM ™* he r tl,liM , iSt - W recover 'the all Til "r J reS - U " ,ed h!s Bea t ulateTnrf f sp,wd complainant's mark h r V , W '* °" $° n ° or - wi «> the table with Vr W ' oul<l not Bit at the lef (I,! Wielaert then Wh hort° n \ half<,az<>d frora the Wow 7. anil Holland and l>i« foth... „.„ 6 Belgian Tho ""a'e«7„ "WteJrt-»w2 ' Vfr """"'.nation " giS to Wi "'' " , V and ftP°lo--tk .T • a ° , ; t . Hc asW the Bench ~ to take a lenient view of the caso under nil 8, . , , ,k,n ff »f the Lusitania, , and he momentarily test , lia head J l ;'* 11 ;'!' fi ' ,, , n R Coe Ifls and costs, ' f^ ( : rt '»«' ;»">• jurtificd his nann i, X " "? Stft " ,linf? in tl,(> community nhoped he would receive the favortitled '° n t0 wllich he was en " ' Counsel for complainant said the mat. ter ■would no. rest at the present case, iw w aprt "V ICTuW to P" rfluc !tfurther by way of a slander action.