MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 11

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THE BACKWASH OF THE STRIKE. COWARDLY ASSAULT. Some oTtlio backwash of the strike was before Jlr. J. S. Evans, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday., Frederick Bagley, a wharf labourer, was charged with assaulting a young woman ou Friday night. A plea of guilty was entered by accused, who stated that ho was drunk at the timo, and excited by strike eventß in Post Office Square. Ho admitted that he had returned to the boardinghouse at which lie was staying and had used certain language to the landlady. Sha had ordered him out of the house, and ho had retaliated by aiming a violent blow at her. This blow, however, had struok the landlady's daughter. Inspector Hendry described the assault as a cowardly, contemptible, and brutal one. Accused was not drunk attire time. The constable who arrested him could testify to that. Accused was fined £5, in default 14 days' imprisonment,' £2 _ot that amount was ordered to be paid to the victim of the assult for medical expenses. CHALLENGED POLICE. . Walter Porcy Jackson, a burly 1 wharf worker, was charged with disorderly conduct in Willis Street, and with using obscene language. Accused had stationed himself on Friday evening at tho corner of Willis Street, where, in a disorderly manner, he informed passersby that he was a striker. Ho had afterwards jumped ou an Aro Street car, and as it was moving off volloyed somo very bad language at two policemen, and invited them to come on to Aro Street. Tho guardians of the law accepted the invitation, with the result that accused was arrested. On the first charge, to which a plea of guilty was entered, accused was fined 405., and on the charge of obsceiie language, to which ho pleaded not guilty, he was fined £0. The alternatives were fixed at seven days and 14 days' imprisonment respectively. CONDUCT IN THE SQUARE. Malick Joseph Downing, a labourer, pleaded guilty to ohargeß of drunkenness and obsceno language, liie orfences wore both committed in Customhouse Square at 7 o'clock on Friday ' evening. On the first charge a fine of 10s. was imposed, and on the second 40s. Th 3 usual alternatives were alFor insobriety, James Garniim; \and John Quinlan were eaeh fined -iUs. A first offender was fined ss. on a similar charge. .