MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2710, 24 October 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (BeforeJhis Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. William West was fined ss, and Matilda Hancock 40s, or a fortnight’s imprisonment, for drunkenness. ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE, Matilda Hancock and John Howard were charged with assaulting constable Haldane, while in the execution of his duty. It appeared from the evidence that at a quarter past four o’clock this morning, the constable hearing screams, proceeded to tbe house of Hancock, in Walker street, where he found her and the male prisoner fighting. He interfered, and seeing tuat the woman was drunk, arrested her, and she escaped from him into the house. He followed her, when Ilowai’d sprang upon hinp, seized him by the beard, and desperately biting his thumb, which he had managed to get into his mouth. The constable then drew his baton and used it, at the same time spi inging his rattle, but before assistance could be got the prisoners had succeeded in ejecting him from the house. On the arrival of Sergeant Coneys an entrance was forced into the house, and the prisoner Hancock arrested. The other prisoner made his escape by the hack window, but was captured shortly afterwards, Hancock was fined L 5, with the alternative of a month’s imprisonment; and Howard, whose face bore marks of its having come foul of the constable’s baton, Ls,or a month’s imprisonment. He was also fined 10s for tearing the constable’s uniform.