COMMON ASSAULT
♦ Having had a couple of drinks on Anniversary Day, Wm. Thompson retired to the rear of the Princess Theatre Hotel, and there, feeling indisposed, lay down to rest. His slumbers were rudely disturbed, so he said, by Charles Henry O'Laughlin, who struck him, kicked him, and generally made a football of him. To-day, O'Laughlin was called upon to answer to a charge of assaulting Thompson with intent to rob. Subsequently, the charge was reduced to one of common assault. O'Laughlin, who was defended by Mr. J. J. M'Grath, denied on oath that ' he had assaulted Thompson, but Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., considered that the weight of evidence was against accused, and he was "fined £3 and costs (£1 17s), in default twenty-one days' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 8
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127COMMON ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 8
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