AFFRAY IN DEVON STREET.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1920, Page 4

AFFRAY IN DEVON STREET.

MAN AND A WOMAN DISAGREE. An incident, which created some excitement for a few minutes took place in Devon Street Central at about eight o'clock Inst oveming. There were a good many people about at the time, avid the first intimation of any untoward happening, was the sight of a man struggling with a woman just outside the fruiterer's shop between the Criterion Hotel and Everybody's Picture Theatre. A crowd quickly gathered round tha parties, and Detective Kt?gibbon, who was in the vicinity at the time, proceeded to interfere in the matter, and met the man just coming out of the fruit shop. He called him inside the shop, where the woman was standing. Her lint had been knocked off in the struggle, and she was considerably upset. In reply to the detective, the man said he was trying to get back two shillings which he had given to tha woman a little earlier. The "woman , denied ever having seen the man before, or receiving any money from hinu Detective Fitagibbon took'the man to tho police station where he at first said (4i his name was Jack Smith, bub ' afterwards said he was John O'Grady. He also first stated that his people lived at Manaia, and later that they belonged to New Plymouth. He stated he had been working for the County for the past week. He Will appear in the Court this morning answer a charge of assault.