HIS BOILING BLOOD

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 8

HIS BOILING BLOOD

A MISGUIDED CHAMPION

IMPRISONED FOR ASSAULT.

A disturbance between twe Eastbourne neighbeurs had its sequel in the Magistrate's Ceurt this morning when Herbert Fake, • a 'contractor, >_ years •of age, was charged before Mr. E. Page, S.M., with assaulting Archibald Hancock, and with breaking and entering by day the dwelling of Archibald Hancock with intent to commit a crime. It was explained by Acting SubInspector Lander that the complainant and defendant lived at Eastbeurne, next te pne anpther. On Friday evening, abput* 7 p'clpck, during the .absence ef Hancock, defendant was at"' leged to have entered the complainant's house by the front' window. Mrs. 'Hancock was at borne preparing to go put. She made an exit by the back deor, and Had word sent'te her husband, whp, accompanied by Cpnstable Thompson, returned to complainant's house. Accused said he had entered the house "te clean the husband up," and in the presence cf 'the censtable made a vielent assault en Hancock. Elizabeth Isabella Hancock, complainant's wife, and Archibald Hancock cerrpbprated the facts outlined by the pclice.. Censtable ' Thpmpspn, statipned at Eastbeurne, gave cerrpborative evidence regarding the assault. While he was taking defendant te. the pplice staticn Fake had tpld him that it'"'made his blood boil, and he couldn't help it when a man was knocking his wife about." Fake admitted that he entered the house by the window, but to do so he said he did not open the window any more, and had net interfered with it in any way; he get'in through the windpw as it was when he feund it, Sub-Inapecter Lander: "What did yeu gp intp the heuse fpr ?"—"Because I was under the impressien that this \yeman was being ill-treated." Fake said he tried the back deor and fpund it' lecked. He had heard her scream that evening,, as well as on ether eccasicns. Sub-Inspectcr Lander: "Is it ccrrect that yeu had spme liquer that day?"— "Yes." Mr. H. H. Cemish, whp appeared fer the accused,, said that there could net be much deubt as tp the mpans and screams,. which were the result cf the I physical cenditipn pf Mrs. Hancock, who suffered from heart trouble. It was admitted that, the accused was mistaken as to ; the origin of the screams, and had entered the heuse with the ebject pf ascertaining whether, the husband was maltreating the wife. He submitted that there were .no technical grounds .to substantiate the charge of breaking and entering, but would plead guilty to the charge of assault. The Magistrate , said he 'thought. no jury would cpnvict on the charge cf breaking and entering, but en the charge ef assaulting Hancpck he would sentence . accused to twenty-one days' imprisonment! Co-fusel's application . for a fine was refused. ' '