SHE CHANGED HER MIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 7

SHE CHANGED HER MIND

A LIVELY COURT DIALOGUE The story of tx\-o men and a girl was told at West London Police Court when George Gray, 23,, a builder and decorator, of Portobello Road, Nottins Hill, xvas charged before Mr. Bingley with assault. I-le is alleged to have struck Mr. John Toba, a surveyor. Mr. Toba said he met a young woman by appointment and was walking with her on Monday evening wTien Gray—a stranger to him—came up and, without a word, struck him in the face with his fist. He was knocked down and as he was getting up Gray hit him again. Gray told the Bench that he was going to meet the young woman and when he got to Gloucester Road saw her walking with another man, and so went over and struck him. Joyce Cole, a young woman in service at Stanhope Gardens, Kensington, said it was quite true she had an appointment to meet Mr. Toba. Mr. Bingley: The defendant says you are his young lady. Cole (to Gray): Do you call me your young lady? I have simply spoken to you as a friend. Gray: You have been out with me. Cole: Well, what about it? Y'ou have told me you go out with other girls. Gray: That has got nothing to do with it. M.r. Bingley (to the girl): He thinks he has such a claim on you that you have no right to go out with anyone else. Cole: Oh, does lie? I should like to know what claim he thinks he has. Gray: You have been carrying on with me for six months. Cole: Carrying on! I have been out walking with you and going to the pictures sometimes. What claim do you think you have? Gray (bitterly): I don’t make any claim now! Mr. Bingley, remarking that girls change their minds sometimes, fined Gray 40s and ordered him to pay the prosecutor £3 damages.