The Examiner Newspaper:-Wednesday 1 May 1935

BOXER IN COURT CHARGE OF ASSAULT
HOBART

Gordon Grant, a professional boxer, was charged in the Criminal Court to-day with having, on February 13 last at Hobart, caused grdvious bodily harm to Aubrey Dallas Tapp by striking him and breaking his jaw; and on a second count with having unlawfully assaulted Tapp. The accused, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded not guilty. After the hear
ing of evidence, the accused was discharged.
Aubrey Tapp stated in evidence that an argument had arisen between the accused and himself regarding a generator which he had lent to Grant, and which Grant failed to return. The accused had told him that the generator had been taken to Queenstown by Sharman's boxing troup, and he thought it was lost. He had told Grant that he was not the man he thought he was, and had received a blow on the jaw. Later he had been picked up by police officers and-taken to the hospital. He had had his hands in his pockets when struck.
The accused- Is it not a fact that you put in a' paper that you would fight any featherweight or lightweight in the state?
Witness-I put it In a paper but I didn't fight. I have had only one fight-in a tent.
When Dr. F. Lennon was called to give evidence of the injury received by Tapp, he stated that the fracture had been painful but not particularly serious. Replying to a question by Grant, he said Tapp did not have a "glass" jaw; it was normal. Acoused's Story
The accused, giving evidence, said that he had been talking in a friendly manner with Tapp when the argument had arisen regarding the generator.
Tapp had become abusive and refused to be pacified. A lot of heated words
had followed and when Tapp had called him a "red-headed - " he had struck him while he was in a fighting attitude. He had been disgusted when he had learned some time later that he had broken Tapp's jaw.
Mr. Beedham-You are a professional boxer are you not? Did you not fight in Launceston recently?
Witness-I fight, but not a lot. I had a fight in Launceston.
Malcolm William Jack McGillvray said that when the argument had commenced Tapp had taken up a very nasty, dirty attitude.
"I went to see Tapp in the hospital,"
said Grant, addressing the jury, "and told him I was sorry. I have a wife and baby and cannot afford a lawyer. I had to take that into consideration."
The jury deliberated for an hour before returning a verdict, of not guilty.