ACCOUNTANT CHARGES DOCTOR WITH ASSAULT.

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 1

ACCOUNTANT CHARGES DOCTOR WITH ASSAULT.

DIVERTING BACK YARD COMEDY IN CHESHIRE. ... LADY’S SINGING DISLIKED. .. A diverting backyard comedy was staged in the court at Birkenhead, Cheshire, recently, when Dr. G. -A. Aloulden, of Princes Boulevard, Higher Babing; on, was summoned for assaulting his next-door neighbour, Air Ralph Henry. Barber, an accountant, by drenching him with a hosepipe. Mr Alister Hamilton, for complainant, stated that the assault was the culmination of a series of annoyances. In September the doctor, two boys and a servant beat the dustbin in the yard for 20 minutes to annoy. Air Barber. 1 Another evening the doctor crouched behind the wall firing a stage pistol and terrifying Airs. Barber and her child. When .dr Barber complained of the noise through his solicitors, Dr. Aloulden wrote: —

“Your client’s wife .sings all day long. Your client’s wife possesses a voice which is abominably loud, extremely penetrating, and has the devastating property of being able- to maintain any given note, particularly a high one ,tor an indefinite period. The singing commences at an early hour and continues with slow pauses for breath until the evening, the back door of your client’s house, being usually open, so that we getr the full volume

or the song. It'lias a pianoforte accompaniment, and has been known to continue until 4.39 on a Sunday morning. “As the noise we have to put up with is worse blian anything I can make, I hm thinking of taking up the study of the trombone. My wife tells me 'that the child was kept awake this morning by the screeching. Your client’s wife’s repertoire is: (1) 'Love Call,’ from ‘Rose Marie’; (2) ‘I Love the Moon’; (3) Aria from 'Samson and Delilah”; (4) 'The Rosary.’ What would Mr Ernest Newman think?’’ (Mr Newman is a well-known musical critic.) , ; . Finally,, continued Mr Hamilton, the doctor was seen playing a mouth-organ, beating the dustbin lid, and driving Ills motor-car in and out of the drive, hooting all the time. That , day the doc-' tor’s maid had been mimicking Mrs. Barber, and Mr Barber complained. Half an hour later, when Air Barber and the doctor were watering then respective gardens, complainant wassplashed with water through the fence Mr Barber cried, “You are doing this on purpose. Stop it.” The doctor’: answer was to turn the hosepipe fuT or, him and he was drenched. Air Bar ber tried to dodge, but the doctor followed him about with the hose. Airs - Barber then came up with a bucket ol water, but the doctor turned the- hosepipe on her, and, not content with this, followed her with a stream of watei into the house, flooding the scullery.” Dr. Aloulden, in his evidence, contended that the hosepipe incident was provoked by Air Barber, who, he al leged, used an offensive expression about Airs. Aloulden. Defendant was fined £3.