With the help of the C.P.C. he was dragged resisting from the wheelhouse but on the pontoon he ceased to struggle, He was then taken to the Revenue Offüice on No. 4 pontoon where there were several people at he time. Witness denied having slapped complainant's face in the office. Complainant was then taken to the Central Police Station where a complaint of assault was made against him. At the court, however, he denied having assaulted witness.
Cross-examined, Sergeant Phinn denied that he did had had plenty of trouble with the laodah of small craft on the river. He was friendly with most of them, he added. "Then you are an exception, Mr. Newman replied. Continuing, witness said that when the laodah did not reply to his sequiest to move the boat it dii not fect him in the slightest and it was in a perfectly friendly spirit that he me back a second time and asked him why the vessel was still there.
"Knowing human nature do you want us to believe that?", Mr. Newman asked and, in reply, witness stated that he had never seen the [Rodah before and had nothing against President Congratulates New Attorney General President Franklin D. Roosevelt congratulating Mr. Frank Murphy, of Michigan, after he had been sworn in as Attorney General of the United States Supreme Court.
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