LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1437, 11 May 1912, Page 14

LAW REPORTS.

LOWER COURT(Before Mr. W. G. Biddoll, 8.M.) LIKE A SHAKESPEARE COMEDY " HE KISSED Mr.." " I WAS PEELING POTATOES." In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Angelina Walker, a young married woman, charged Thomas Ryan with having assaulted her. Mr. H. F. O'Loary, counsel for defendant, entored a plea of not guilty. Do You Remember April 16. Complainant, who waa not represented by counsel, waa asked by his Worship: 'Do you remember April 16?" Complainant: Yea, your Honour, I was in tho scullery, peeling potatoes. Of course, I can't soy which way Mr. Ryan camo in, but he kissed :ne. Was he sober?—" Yes, your Hononr." Where did ho go afterwards ?—"I deliberately told him I would tell my husband, and he stood at tho scullery step and bogged mo not to toll him. I deliberately (old him that I was a respect- I nble married woman." Do you know the defendant?—" Only casually. I find ho has given me a most cruel character —too much for any woman to stand." How long have you, been in the Dominion?—" About two -yenrs." ■ What time of the day did this happen? —"About five to five, as near as possihle." Mr. O'Loary: How long havo yon known the defendant? . . . About eeven months? -"Yes." Hβ had a room in the same building as you and your husband?—"No, your Honour." The solicitor: I am not his HonouT. His Honour is not present to-day. I am plain Mr. O'Leary. Had ho ever interfered with yon before?—"He asked me to go up country with him." Xou refused, of course?—" Most decidedly." Did you tell your husband about that? —"Of course I did." Did your husband speak to him about it?—"No; I didn't wish any further quarrel." What was the first you know nbont this kissing?—" Well, when he did if." Where did he kiss you? On the forehead, on the nose, ur where?—"On the lips." ; You are not feeling any ill-effects from it are you?—"No, but I took it as a great insult. ,. And you didn't mention it to your husband for a week afterwards ?—"He was ill." Do you remember that on the following Monday this man complained of the filthy, state of the washhouse?—"Yes; he 6aid he would certainly bring sanitary inspectors up." * ; And the next day, you eay, you told your husband about the kissing ?—"Yes." And is not that the reason ? Just to get one back on to him?—" No." _ His Worship: You need not pursue this line. ■ ■ His Worship, to informant: Have you any other evidence? Informant: Well, I can tell you the character he gave me. His Worship: Wo don't want to hear that. Defendant Describes How he got the Summons. Defendant Eyan then gave evidence. TTc said that when in bed early one morning ho heard loud knocking at his door. "Then," he continued, "a policeman looked through the window. 'Are you Thomas Eyan,' he said. 'Yes, 5 I said. 'I've got a summons for vou,' he eaid. 'What for,' I asked him. 'For striking, or'inaking ■'& gesture to strike, one 'Angelina' , Walker;' he told me. 'Oh,' I said, 'I know nothing about it. Anyhow, I'll take the summons.' When I came out Walker was in the yard. He attacked mo like a turkey. 'I will show you,' he said, .'that you won't kiss another man's wife.' And his missus, she had to come down and start blackguarding me, too.- I went into ray front room, and the two of them came in and bombarded me." His Worship: The defendant has pleaded not guilty, and it is oath against oath. Of course it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that such a thing did happen, but I doubt if the proof is sufficient. The information is "dismissed without prejudice. A BROKEN JAW. John M'Cready was charged with having caused William Carncross bodily harm. Sub-Inspector , Sheehan asked for a remand till Wednesday next. Carncross was in the hospital suffering from a broken jaw. The remand was agreed to. Mr. J. J. M'Grath, who represented defendant, applied for bail, and this was allowed in the sum of ,£7O. IN AN OYSTER SALOON. Leo Martin was accused of having assaulted Francis Doyle. Defendant pleaded guilty under provocation. Sub-Inspector: "Plaintiff went into an oyster saloon for a meal. Complainant waa there, and defendant tried to strike up a conversation with him. Complainant objected . . . and' it ended in tho assault." Defendant (in evidence): Thin chap was under tho influence of drink, and started working a point, and swearing. He swore at me, and said something I didn't like, and I hit him. Sub-Inspector Shcehan: There was nothing of that kind that I know of. The magistrate: Tho evidence is against you. Yon must be convicted. You will be fined £2. "FOR REVENGE." Kate Hall charged Thomas Johnson with assault, and Elizabeth Donald charged Kate Hall with having broken her windows. Hall, for whom Mr. H. P. O'Leary apS eared, admitted having broken the winow, but said that she had done so in revenge for Johnson's assault. Johnson said that the windows were broken before he had met Hall, and ho denied the charge of assault. Johnson was ordered to pay solicitor's fee, XI Is., and Hall was required to make good the damage she had done. OTHER CASES. Kenneth Stewart was fined 10j. for having driven a motor-car at a speed greater than a walking pace after dark, and not having had two sufficient lights on tho vehicle. On the information of the Karori Borongh Council Georgo Hearfield was fined ss. and costs 7s. for having allowed a horse to be at largo; William Thomas Hildreth was ordered to pay Court costs 7s. for having allowed a cow to wander; and Alice Wickman waa fined ss. and ordered to pay 7s. costs for having allowed a cow to wander. Frederick William Meyer was fined £\ for having failed to keep wages and overtime books. Mr. A. L. Herdman appeared for the defendant, and entered a pica of gmlty. Sidney Tovery was ordered to pay costs amounting to £2 is. regarding a charge that he had travelled on the Mirainar car line without paying his fare. Defondant explained that his breach was unintentional. Mary Donaldson was charged with having procured liquor whilo prohibited, and with, during tho currency of tho prohibition order, liaving entored the Hotel Cecil and tho Wellington Hotel. Mr. H. Putnam appeared for the defondant. He ontered a plea of guilty on tho charges of having entered hotels. Aβ to the other charge Tie submitted fhat the police had addnced no ovidenco that tho defendant had obtained li<]uor. The Court 'upheld Mr. Putnam's contention, , and dismissed the information. Respecting tho other charges, defendant was fined £2.