East Coast Sea Defence Contractors at Grips. Ex-Policeman Convicted of Biting East Coast, Demerara Thursday 23, 1934 Robert Benjamin Barton, an ex-policeman and Randolph Aaron Abrams, two contractors on the Sea Defence Works at Nog Eens, had a dispute on August 17 over some money in respect of work done jointly by them. A fight eventually ensued in which Barton is alleged to have bitten Abrams on the chest.
Barton was charged by the Police with assault to cause actual bodily harm and appeared before Mr. Magistrate A. V. Crane, LLB at Vigilance Police Court yesterday pleaded guilty and was fined $15 and costs $2.72 or 30 days and ordered to pay $5 compensation to the injured man.
Source:
the Daily Chronicle Friday, August 24, 1934
Barton was charged by the Police with assault to cause actual bodily harm and appeared before Mr. Magistrate A. V. Crane, LLB at Vigilance Police Court yesterday pleaded guilty and was fined $15 and costs $2.72 or 30 days and ordered to pay $5 compensation to the injured man.
Source:
the Daily Chronicle Friday, August 24, 1934
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