COMMITTED FOR PERJURY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 7

COMMITTED FOR PERJURY.

CHANGE AGAINST A WOMAN. A married •woman aamed Annie Enwright was charged at the Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr R. W. Dyer, S.M., with committing perjury during the hearing of a case at the Magistrate's Court on January 27 last. The charge was that the defendant swore she had not committed certain acts and used certain language when the said acts and language were proved against her. Sub-Inspector Black prosecuted, the defendant being represented by Mr Brookficld. Henry Hawthorne G. Ralfe, clerk of the Magistrate's Court, Auckland, said he administered the oath to the accused on the taking of her evidence. He heard her say to the magistrate that she had not thrown a tumbler., but that Mrs Pavletieh had thrown a tumbler at her. She also denied having assaulted Mrs Pavletieh. He did, while in Court, see accused bare-her .arm.. Phyllis Pavletieh, keeper of the Coromandel restaurant, gave evidence as to accused having entered her place in company with a man, aDd after being served complained about the coffee and used bad language. Afterwards the accused assaulted her, and remarked when she -was pulled off by two men that she did not want to leave witness until she had marked her for six months. Accused afterwards picked up a glass and threw it at witness, which she avoided by moving her head, whereupon the glass crashed through the window into the street. Witness heard the ac-cus-ed deny in Court having thrown the glass and used the offensive language. May Binney, a waitress at the restaurant, gave corroborative evidence, as did Arthur Service and Thomas Smith, all witnesses in the previous case. Evidence for the prosecution was also given by Constables Hammond and Montgomery. The accused elected to reserve Tier evidence, pleading not guilty, and was committed to take her trial at tho Supreme Court, bail being fixed in two sureties of £50 each.