MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2796, 2 February 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day, (Before his Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. Thomas Hayes, for this offence, was fined ss. ASSAULT. Joshua Solomon v. Lewis Lyons, and Lyons v, Solomon, were charges of assault. Mr M'Keay appeared for the complainant in the first case. It appeared from the evidence that on Wednesday a row occurred in the auction room of Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co., and at the conclusion of it Lyons, who had just arrived on the scene, directed a remark to the complainant to the effect that if the latter wished to strike his (Lyons’s) brothel 1 , he would have to strike him first. This observation, according to some witness, led Solomon to aim a blow at Lyons, who “ducking” under, caught him by the legs and upset him on to the pavement. A scramble resulted, and when Lyons got on to his feet be ran across the street, followed by Solomon, who struck him. Later in th ■ day, meeting Solomon in High street, and “receiving no recompense, Lyons assaulted him. After bearing the evidence, his Worship observed that it appeared that the complainant in the first case had been subject to a series of persecutions, which would naturally lead him to make an assault on his persecutors. Whatever justification there might have been for the assault in the first instance, there was none whatever for the second, which was a cowardly one. But for the fact that the complainant had attempted to strike the defendant in the first instance, a heavier fine would have been inflicted ; and he intimated that if any future cases of persecuting the complainant came before him, a heavy fine would he inflicted. The defendant in Solomon v. Lyons would be fined 20s and costs; and the other case would be dismissed. OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS. Henry Jones, James Nicholson, and Jas. M ‘Dongall, were each fined 2s 6d and costs for driving horses around street corners at other than a walking pace. George Dodson, for allowing the company’s water to ran to waste, was fined Is ; and a charge of a similar nature preferred against Benj. Perry was dismissed. Henrietta Eyre and Mary Jane Murdoch, two children charged with throwing stones, were let off with a caution, their parents promising that they should not similarly offend in future.