RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
This Day. (Before J. Fulton, Esq., E.M.) CHARGE or ASSAULT. Mrs Lee charged Mrs Johnson with assaulting a boy named James Lee, one of tbe runners for the Echo. From the evidence of the boy, it appeared that Mrs Johnson owed the boy a penny for one number of tho Echo, when that lade pelted him, kicked him, and beat him with a switch. From the evidence of a witness, it appeared that the boy was running away when Mrs Johnson called out for witness to stop him. He did so, and handed him over to the angry lady, who boxed his ears. Mrs Johnson’s story was that the Echo runner had been in tbe habit of decoying away her son, notwithstanding she had expressed her objection to his selling newspapers through the streets. For her own part, she never bought an Echo ; but on the buy going to her house she pushed the young hopeful out of her yard, when he turned round and struck her with a stick he had in his hand, on which she boxed bis ears. The case was dismissed.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2206, 2 June 1870, Page 2
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188RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2206, 2 June 1870, Page 2
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