POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 170, 18 July 1907, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY.

(Before Messrs J. Stiehbury, W. Tattley, and W. Thomas.)

Inebriate. —Henry Walsh, a second 'offender, was fined 5/ and cab hire, in default 24 hours. Agnes Austin, for her third appearance within six months, as the sequel to a series of lapses, was fined £2, in default one month's imprisonment. Several bibers in trouble for the first time were dealt with in the usual manner.

Assault.—Lars ChristianChristofferson a navvy of large dimensions, and a wharf labourer named John Armistead, were charged with assaulting a woman named Mrs Eidling. After hearing the evidence, the Bench decided to convict and discharge Armistead, and to fine Christofferson £1, in default 4S hours' imprisonment.

Family Amenities.—David McQuoid was charged with using obscene language, and also with assaulting Margaret Stokes in Short-street on Wednesday last. Mr McGregor conducted the case for the prosecution, Mr Brookfield defending. The allegation was that defendant used a quantity of vile language on the 10th inst., and again two°days later, while intervening between his wife and her sister, Miss Stokes, and that he accompanied it by violent treatment of Miss Stokes. The defence was a general denial of the alleged language and assault, the husband's solicitude for his wife having occasioned him to throw her sister aside somewhat roughly while the two women were lying on the ground. The Bench dismissed the information in connection with the charge of using foul language, and fined defendant £5 and costs on the assault count, binding him in sureties to keep the peace for sis months.