POLICE COURT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11508, 14 February 1903, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

Mr W. W. Tanner, J.P., Mr. W. H. Cooper, J.P., and ilr P. N. Stewart, 3.V., presided; at the Police Court yesterday. DRUNKENNESS. Two first offenders were each fined ss, with the usual alternative, for drunkenness. , * ALLEGED ASSAULT. J. McAnaUy (Mr Russell) was charged with having, on the afternoon of January 9th, assaulted C. W. Hensley (Mr Beattie) in the bar of His Lordship's Larder. 'C. W. Hensley .deposed, that on the date in question he met McAnaUy in the bar of His Lordship's Larder. Witness said, "Come here, Jack, I want to speak to you," when defendant hit him in the mouth' and loosened some teeth. Before ihe assault witness told defendant he wished to speak to him. Defendant offered to pay expenses, but witness did not went money, but only satisfaction. Robert Moore gave evidence. J McAnaUy deposed that he had been, constantly annoyed by pladntiff in. the street. Hβ had tried to keep dear of Hensley, who had pulled him by Mβ coat in the bar, and would not let him alone. Witness had pushed Hensley off juet strongly enough to get rid of him. Mr Beattie had written witness a letter aekinjr for £5, and -witness had replied t/hat lie would not give sd. The Bench unammoualy agreed that the affair was a trivial one, that the assault was unproved, and that the case must be dismissed. DOMESTIC INFELICITY. MaTy Com applied to have her husband, John Corn, bound over to keep the peace, but she did not wish that lie should be imprisoned. They had been married for about fourteen years, and during the last seven yeare she had had much to put ap with. Her husband, who had'thrashed her -vrith the broom, blackened her eyes and otherwise knocked her about, was not addicted to drink. She only "wanted her husband to.be bound to keep the peace, bo that he might be quiet. The Bench adjourned the case for a week, to enable the applicant to produce witnesses.