MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2992, 20 September 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. {Before his Worship the Mayor and Jas. Brown, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. John H. Henry was fined 10s. bye-law case. George Galloway was fined 10s and costs for allowing cattle to stray. assault, &c. Lewis I yons applied to have Joshua Solomon bound over to keep the peace. Mr Harris for complainant, who stated that one dav this week he and defendant were in Wain’s Hotel, Manse street. While he was in another room he heard the latter, who was in the bar, eay to the barman and a man named Murphy, who was also in the bar, of him (Lyons) that he was a gambler and lived by prostitution, and that “he would make it hot for him.” This evidence was partly corroborated by Murphy, who said he thought the whole thing was a lark. —Defendant, in addressing the Bench, complained that Lyons was in the habit of abusing him, and that the latter had tried iu Wain’s to provoke him to commit a breach of the peace. —His Worsliip said the Bench were inclined to the opinion that, while the words used by defendant were sufficient to have provoked plaintiff to have committed a breach of the peace, and which, had they been spoken within the hearing of persons outside, would have justly rendered him liable to punishment, were not sufficiently exact or definite to cause plaintiff any bodily fear. The case was therefore dismissed, the Beach cautioning the defendant to avoid using similar language in future. John M'Allister v. William Lloyd, was a charge of assault. Mr Harris for the defendant, who admitted the assault, but pleaded provocation. The weight of evidence was, however, the other way. On the morning of Wednesday, the rival Palmerston coaches were at the White Horse Hotel, and the driver of the opposition ’bus (Duncan) and Lloyd indulged in a little bandinage. M‘Allister took upon himself to assist a lady passenger into the opposition coach, whereupon Lloyd committed the assault complained of. Lloyd was fined 20s and costs.