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default two days' imprisonmentTO KEEP THE PEACE.Emma Boxhall complained that SidneyClifford Hatton haid threatened her withviolence, and requested that he he boundover to ^teep the fwaee.■Sergfc. Both said that when he was | arrested defendant eaid that he did not know anything about the matter, and that he had not Ipoken to the complainant for some time.Emma Boxhall, sitfter-in-law of the defendant, said that lt;*n the night of February 6 she saw the defendant near her house. A few minutes later complainant heard gun shots ,firlt;3d. Witness gotthrough a window on the opposite side Jof the house from wfhcro the shots were fired, and went to a neighbour's place.To the Bench: His wife will not live with him. I apprehend violence from him in view of the letters I have receivedtTn reply to defendant, the witness denied that she had written to defendant's wife making certain charges, or that she (witness) Hind given him a valueless cheque. Witness had prove mud defendant from striking big wife with an axe rn one occasion. She did not call the cows bv filthy names, and her home was not unfit for children to livo in. She had not mused, the trouble bo tween defendant and his wife.Sergt. Kilnor told how he went to Mn, Boxhall *s house on February 0 and was handed eight empty revolver bullet .easeswhich were from a large calibre revolver. Witness saw three of the cases picked upwithin 20 yards of the house. He sawbullet holes in a poBt. The marks werequite fresh, The shots were not fired in the direction of the house.-The defendant denied that he had been near Boxhall's place at all. The bullet shells produced were riot his as he did not possess a, revolver. Ho had been bound over to keep the peace in anothercase. He did not make throats againsthis wife and Mra, Boxhall.defendant was ordered to enter into a recognisance to keep the peace for twelve months in ono surety of £25, or two in £12/10/, in default two months’ hard labor. ,,
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Murwillumbah Tweed Daily
Murwillumbah, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Feb 09, 1923
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