PRISONERS FOR TRIAL.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15037, 4 August 1914, Page 4

PRISONERS FOR TRIAL.

ASSAULT. Jamos Bartiey, alias Fulton, pleaded ot guilty to ot* Juno 2-tth. at G'hri tairch, assaulting Philip Me4", with : ltont to co.nmit a crime. Four oouuts .•ero preferred against prisoner. Ao-u-sed was not deJei aeu by c v -el. E > ence, on the lines of that already uUi.hed, was given concerning tlie .-ssault' on Metz, as to accused being ..egod to bo the assailant, and as ."0 accused being seen coming out of ■fetz's abo*). Accused, who elected to give evid•nce, si-id that on tho morning of the •.ssault he was walking down Armagh > ■ troet in the direction of '-larchcster t-rcot, on tho same side of tho street is Meta's shop. Just as he passed tho ■hop ho crossed the street and heard •-creams coming from behird. Several nen informed accused that Metz wan pointing at him, and somo of them followed him, savin.*. •'This is the .nan." After a while he stopped aud asked them what thoy were following him for. They said ho was tho- man Met** was pointing at. In response to the invitation of ore of them he went back to the shop and was arrested by Sergeant Stewart. On June 23rd. fr-vn dinner-time til' dark, he was in a High ••troet billiard saloon. Tho jury, after twenty minutes' retirement, found accused guilty. Mr Raymond eaid accused had been in this country about eight and a half years, havingcomo from Australia. In May, 1912. ho had received a sirs months' sentence. The police gave him a bad name. *' ""You have been convicted of a murderous assault,'" said his Honour to accused. "Had the man been killed you would have been hanged- Ab it i3_you will be sentenced to ten years' imprisonment."