A SUNDAY ROW

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 3

A SUNDAY ROW

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

Mr. E. Page, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court to-day, when May M'Donald, alias Annie Wilson, charged with assaulting Margaret Gallehawk and causing actual bodily harm, pleaded not guilty. ■ _ . • ] Medical evidence was given to the injuries received by the victim of the alleged assault. One wound in the cheek was two inches long. Margaret Gallehawk, an elderly married woman, residing at 220, Cuba steet, stated that the accused in an altercation on 18th November, took her by the hair, kicked her on the body and head, and dragged her about. The accused was very drunk at the time, a Sunday morning. . ." . • - Accused, cross-examining: "You're a German." Witness: "You're a liar, I'm a truebred Scotswoman." Accused: "You tried to bite me." Witness denied any provocation whatever to the .accused. Minnie King gave corroborative evidence. ■ The accused in evidence submitted that there had been provocation in the attitude Mrs. .Gallehawk' had adopted towards the landlady, who was an old friend of hers. The two had engaged in a mutual struggle, in which Mrs. Gallehawk had come off worse. In-mak-ing a rush at her, Mrs. Gallehawk had fallen in. the corner of the dresser. All that witness had done was to protect herself in self-defence. - The Magistrate said that he proposed to convict the accused, though possibly there was provocation.. The accused need not have taken the action she did. The Sub-Inspector said that the accused had the character of being a good worker. . His Worship' convicted the accused and ordered her to enter into a bond of £20 a* a surety of good behaviour for 12 months. She would also have to pay the costs of the proceedings and witnesses' expenses. Three weeks were given to pay.