ASSAULTED A TENANT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 9

ASSAULTED A TENANT

"Mr. Wilson might have thought he had reasons for doing this, but if he wants to get the tenants out of the house the law provides a proper way, and, if he could prove half the things which he has tried to allege today, a very speedy way of getting tenants out," said Mr. W. C. Harley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in con^ victing and imposing a fine of £10 upon Robert Stuart Wilson, a hotel proprietor, for assaulting Isabella Elizaberth Forde. Wilson pleaded not guilty. His sister, Mrs. Melba Donald, pleaded not guilty to the same charge, and the Magistrate dismissed it. Mr. A. B. Sievwright appeared for them. The police evidence, supported by three women witnesses and a constable, was that Wilson entered the rooms of Mrs. Forde and of a Mrs. J. W. Wilson in .an apartment house owned by him in Marion Streee in an indeavour to get them to leave, and that he assaulted Mrs Forde. Mrs. Donald, witness said, pulled Mrs. Forde's hair. The defendants denied that Wilson had been in the women's rooms or assaulted Mrs. Forde, but it' was admitted that Mrs. Donald and Mrs. Forde had pulled each other's hair after the latter had hit the former with a small shovel. It was submitted that Mrs. Forde had instigated the proceedings .to get a conviction against Wi:-on with a view to civil proceedings.