MAGISTRATES COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 1 December 1915, Page 9

MAGISTRATES COURT

$ , AN AGGRAVATED 'ASSAULT. Captain W. H. Hennah, J.P., and Mr. R. D. Hanlon, J.P., were 011 the Bench at yesterday's sittings of the Magistrate's Court. A sentence of threo months' imprisonmnt was passed upon John Pearson, who was convicted of committing an aggravated assault upon his daughter and of using obscene language towards her and , liis wife. Inspector Heudrey stated that Mrs. Pearson bad had to leave her husband on account of his bad conduct, and the assault took place when the accused met his wife and daughter in Dixon Street. The daughter had been "knocked out," by a violent blow on tho chin, and. the accused .had then been taken in charge by somo bystanders and handed over to the polico. THREE SAILORS. Alphonso Visbraecken was convicted of disorderly conduct while drunk and of resisting the arresting constable. Two of his companions—Harry Darball and Theonfercl Wauters—were convicted of obstruction during the arrest of Visbraecken. All three were Belgian sailors off the steamer Mamari-'and the Bench decided to merely rrder (heir return to the steamer. OTHER CASjES. • John Hnrgreaves and John Francis O'Koefe, who had stowed away 011 the steamer Manuka from Sydney ro Wellington, were fined £0 each, tho'alternative being a month's imprisonment'. John Stubbs was convicted and discharged for drunkenness, but lor using obscene language 110 was fined 10s., in default to undergo forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Thomas Watson and Frederick Gunn, who had been arrested for threatening behaviour in Manners Streot, wore fined 10s. each,, with the option of to prison for 48 hours. I'iifre fii'iti.olfsndliig inebriates wciie also dealt with* ; .