A JUDGE ASSAULTED.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 15 July 1911, Page 5

A JUDGE ASSAULTED.

SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT.

Bj Telegraph- Press Association— CopyriKhl London, July 13. The man who assaulted Mr. Justice Ridley at Hull, at the conclusion of the election petition against Sir H. S. Kins, has been sentenced to a week's hard labour for common assault.

The Central Hull election petition, tho hearing of which at Hull bad occupied nino clays, ended on Juno 1, the ]u«gC9 finding 1 the respondent, Sir Henry Seymour Kins, Unionist member for the division, guilty of illegal acts. By this decision Sir Seymour King lost a seat winch he ,liad held for twenty-five years. A crowd of several thousand persons assembled outside the Law Courts in Parliament Street as soon as the judgment became known, and showed gieat cxcitement. As the judges emerged from the main entrance to the courts there was loud booing. Their Lordships drove away under the protection of a mounted police escort. They had not proceeded far before a disgraceful incident occurred.. Mr. Justice Ridley was struck 011 the shoulder by a piece of coal which had been hurled at the passing motor-car. A second piece of coal went very near to Mr. Justice Bucknill's head.