DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

WAITRESSES ASSAULTED. TPfb Pukhh A««S"OT*tion.l Wellington, September 15. "I plead not guilty, and say nothing. You wouldn't believe me if I did. These other people will tell you a pack of lies, but its all gospel to the court in New Zealand. Justice? You don't call it justice. You don't get justice in this court." Thus spoke Alfred Fowler in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when charged with committing aggravated assault on Zella Smith and Violet Anderson, and wilfully damaging the latter's blouse. It was a sequel to an affair which occurred at Brown's Coffee Palace yesterday. Fowler, it is alleged, endeavored to escape payment for a> meal, and-the two informants (waitresses) endeavored to collect the money. Accused smackod Zella. Smith across the face and injured her eye, and threw a hottle of sauce at Violet Anderson, and spoilt a silk blouse. For the assault on Zella Smith, Fowler was fined £2, »jii default, fourteen days in goal; for that on the other girl, he was fined £l, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonment. He was nlso ordered to pay the damage done to the Mousa (8s 6d), and expenses totalling Bs,