Post by nzbc on Mar 16, 2023 19:35:20 GMT 12
CHINESE ASSAULTED.
STRUCK IN RESTAURANT. Arrested in a Chinese restaurant last night, Leslie Murray, aged 30, seaman, and Alan David Me Roger, 29, farm hand, appeared in flic Police Court this morning, before Mr. YVyvern Wilson, S.M., Murray being charged with assaulting Wong Wai, and Mcßoger with assaulting Ah Chan. l.oth. men. pleaded guilty. .Mr. K. C. Aekins appeared for Murray. Senior Sergeant- Flanagan said the two men entered a Chinese restaurant in Grey Avenue at 10.13 last night, Murray asking a Chinese if the pakapoo bank had been drawn. Wong Wai told Murray that pakapoo was not played on the premises and asked him to leave. Murray refused and struck Wong Wai in the eye. "He went outside but then came back and commenced to throw the furniture about," said Mr. Flanagan. "The two men then left, but were later brought back to the restaurant by a constable. In the presence of the police, Mcßoger hit Ah Clian on the face. Murray had only l>een released from a prison farm on Thursday and was still on license." Mr. Ac-kins said that, unfortunately, on arrival in Auckland from the Hautu prison camp on Thursday, Murray took too much liquor. ITis version of the affair was that the Chinese pushed him and that be only pushed and did not strike the Chinaman. Counsel admitted that Murray had a formidable list of previous convictions, but asked that he lie fined instead of returned to prison. "It- was not an ordinary ease of assault; there being a fair amount of disorderly conduct," said the magistrate ' in fining each man £3 and ordering them, to pay 7/6 witnesses' expenses. J AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXV, ISSUE 76, 31 MARCH 1934, paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19340331.2.70?items_per_page=10&page=3&query=chinese+restaurant+auckland&snippet=true
STRUCK IN RESTAURANT. Arrested in a Chinese restaurant last night, Leslie Murray, aged 30, seaman, and Alan David Me Roger, 29, farm hand, appeared in flic Police Court this morning, before Mr. YVyvern Wilson, S.M., Murray being charged with assaulting Wong Wai, and Mcßoger with assaulting Ah Chan. l.oth. men. pleaded guilty. .Mr. K. C. Aekins appeared for Murray. Senior Sergeant- Flanagan said the two men entered a Chinese restaurant in Grey Avenue at 10.13 last night, Murray asking a Chinese if the pakapoo bank had been drawn. Wong Wai told Murray that pakapoo was not played on the premises and asked him to leave. Murray refused and struck Wong Wai in the eye. "He went outside but then came back and commenced to throw the furniture about," said Mr. Flanagan. "The two men then left, but were later brought back to the restaurant by a constable. In the presence of the police, Mcßoger hit Ah Clian on the face. Murray had only l>een released from a prison farm on Thursday and was still on license." Mr. Ac-kins said that, unfortunately, on arrival in Auckland from the Hautu prison camp on Thursday, Murray took too much liquor. ITis version of the affair was that the Chinese pushed him and that be only pushed and did not strike the Chinaman. Counsel admitted that Murray had a formidable list of previous convictions, but asked that he lie fined instead of returned to prison. "It- was not an ordinary ease of assault; there being a fair amount of disorderly conduct," said the magistrate ' in fining each man £3 and ordering them, to pay 7/6 witnesses' expenses. J AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXV, ISSUE 76, 31 MARCH 1934, paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19340331.2.70?items_per_page=10&page=3&query=chinese+restaurant+auckland&snippet=true