A ROUGH CUSTOMER

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 22 December 1885, Page 2

A ROUGH CUSTOMER

Mil Musks McXim.f, a nettler, of Hukanui, had .1 most unpleasant I'xp'Micnct) on Fnday evening. li< turning liomi>, lie found tlio slip-p.md-. leading into his farm il.ihii, and (in appinachmg Ins dwelling nliMiived .1 man looking in at tun window, muttrimg to himself and making use of t'-inbl" thieats agunst " somo person 01 pei-.ons unknown," hw oiatoiy being plentifully g<>i niched with lingu.ige not fit fm cm polite. Mr MrVikle had never seen t!l ! in m before, a id lutioduced himself with .in enquiry one inuuf the lotting down of the blip panels. Tlie stranger at once turned lourul, ,md. with some obscene rennrk, -tiuck McN'iklf a tioh'iit blow on the mouth. Ho then armi'd himself with a ti tioo stick, uith winch lie at onco pro cpudi'd to bi'l.ib'iur tli<* owner of th>« pic tni-i-M. McXikle, sufFerinx from the effect-* of .1 stm>u> blow on fh« wrut, and con \iuced th.it his assail.int was deranged, fl-d foi .tsM-.t.mco to ,i nei^lilniur's hmi^u. Hr«i«* he hms advised to .seek the services of tli« M.iori poliei'in.in at the. n.ititn sottlisment close ly. This function iry, whose name 1-, H.xkopa Nukutuiru.i, -md who was ap pointed by the Native Committee, at once comr-ited to arrest the olfender, which he did with the aid of sovoml other natives. The prisoner, wli i i« a biy poweiful fellow, was, after a severe stiugghs bound hand ami foot, .and mie of the hettl( r-. iodo into Hamilton, wliere h" at rived at midnight, and informed the police. S'-iijc.int-M.tjiir MctJovern at once do^p itched Constable Wild to Iluk.uiui. On ainv,il at that place the < const ible found that the natives hid untied their piUoner. but on luh lofusal to i?o fpiietty to Hamilton, and indeed after hu had offered violent ie-u>t-ance to the constable, he was bound up aiMin— his wrists were too thick to allow of ln^ being handcuffed -and Constable Wild, assisted by Ilakopa, (?ot him rafely into ]{amilton. Ye-teiday, the man, who gave his name as Kdwird Walsh, \v,\% brought up at the Police Court, before his Worship the M iyor, and Mr John Knov, J.P. He pleaded pnilty to the charge of assaulting McXikle, but the b>nrh decided to he.vr the evidence. Walsh was then he'itenc>'d U> ono month'- impi i-.on ni-nt r>n tbi-< clmgi 1 , and to a xuuilir period in R 101 for I >-i«tiuj,' tlio C)»«t,ih]p, Tlie bencli coinp'.imnnted the n iti\ r o p-ilicenian, Hakopa, on the promptitude ho h-id displayed, and although not cmtomtry, granted him £1 to cover his e\peiiset ,is a witness.