RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT
THIS DAY. (Before H. Kenrick, Esq., E.M.) ALLEGED INDECENT AiSAULT. Itichard Hancock, who was tried for this offence on Saturday was brought up for judgment. tiis Worship said the police had proved a case of common assault, inasmuch as he lifted the child Clara Haivey from one room to another, but though the indecency of the offence had been proved by the evidence, the Act under which the present charfee was laid required that theindecency complained of must be part of the"assault. This had not been proved, so tlie prisoner would be discharged, but he hoped the law would" admit of the offence being sheeted home to the prisoner, as it was, considering the tender age of the child, the most shameless case of the kind that it had ever been his unfortunate lot to have brought before him.
Sergt.-Major O'Grady said j the wicnesses who had given evidence in the case on Saturday had been subjected to a deal of annoyance by a man named Miller, who was a friend of the prisoner.
His Worship: "If you will bring this person before me, Bergt-Major, and prove the offence against him, I will soon prevent a repetition of the same." Court adjourned.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4000, 24 October 1881, Page 2
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205RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4000, 24 October 1881, Page 2
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