A BRUTAL SON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3548, 28 June 1890, Page 2

A BRUTAL SON.

At the North Melbourne Court thb other.';morning,''a : stout-built young., tnnn, named Willwra "Dixpn, was charged with btiiog drunk, threatening the. iifo of his father;. and - assaulting Constable Leorham. • •"■ James Dixon, of 'Abbotsford street/ - said prisoner: camo' into witness's room about /&20 a.m. on Saturday, and' said, " You- .dog.JWI brain you and your too," Witness was too afraid of .defendant's, violenco to do anything.. On Sat- ; urday afternoon he. caught, his sister v by the throat, ; and:hftlfdhoke(l.he>,:,,' and Bmash'ed her brooch. The girl . was now laid up, and her mother was. dying with dropsy, There hadbeon noi peace because' of." that' brute : ' there, ■" -Witumhere gave' 'way/ : to. tears 1 and: seemed greatly distressed. He asked the Bench to bind prisoner to koep the peace, and hoped he would'never come near 'the.. family again. ; He had struck witness and when "he was drunk he was mod, and when he was Sober not very decent," Witness had; sent'him up' tho country, but he had come' down again.' Prisoner had been a terror to them for six years, \ Constable Leorham said that about 7.30 p.m. on. Saturday, in company, with .Constable M'Glynn, he ..went to prisoner's house to arrest him. Defen*" dant was lying half drunk in a stable pretending to be asleep. When arrested he was moot violent, and had to be.knocked, down and handcuffed: He kicked Leorham in the back,' arid when, being search at the look-up hit the constable on the side of the head, "Prisoner seemed more mad then i drunk, Sergeant Mason said , there were six previous convictions against Dixon, three of which were for assault on the police,

Prisoner who bud no defence,, had the cool impudence to ask the Benoh not to send him to gaol" for too long a terra.";. \ .'• '

The Chairman (Dr Lloyd) said Dixon deserved to be tied to a tolagraph- pole and. whipped, His con-

duct was disgraceful and unnatural.For being drunk he was fined 10s or;

18' hours. "Forthe assault, on the constable £5 fine or three months'

Imprisonment ..with hard.■ labor, and as regarded his father, he was ordered to be bound to the keep peace

for 12 months in the sum of £25 in himself, and one surety of like amount, arid in default to be'imprisoned for that poriodi'• i'■ '■ ■"■'■•