MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2943, 25 July 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before His Worship the Mayor and James Brown, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKKKKESS*. Mary Bates was discharged -with a caution, AM-KHED TIIIO-KT. Mary Bales, remanded from yesterday on a charge of stealing a watch, the property of one Donald M'Lcan, was discharged with a caution. ASSAUI.TINC; THE i’ol.K'i;. James Ding and Thomas Donnell an were charged with assaulting Constable Fynmore when in the execution of his duty. The eases were heard separately, and Mr Stout defended in both. The facts shortly stated are these At about eleven o’closk on Saturday evening Constable Fynmorg when on duty in Great King street, and near the Hospital, heard a woman screeching, and proceeding in the direction of the erics he met two men, one of whom, Donnellan, went into the shop of Mr Bethune, butcher. The other, King, went home ; hut by the time the constable reached the house, he had reappeared outside with his coat off. He assaulted the constahK on the street, and dragged him inside his own yard, where he was further assaulted, Donnellan assisting, and striking him too. —For the defence, it was said that the constable went into King’s yard, and tried to arrest him, and so committed a trespass.-Donnellan, giving evidence in King’s ease, denied having ever struck the constable ; and Mrs King, who witnessed the affair, gave similar evidence. Fynmore, on the other hagd, swore that Donnellan was attracted to the scene by King’s “ cooey,” and that he was most unmistakably struck by the former. —The Pencil considered the case against King prove 1, and fined him L 5, with the alternative of fourteen days’ imprisonment. In Douncllan’s case they had a doubt, they considering it was possible in the excitement of the struggle the constable may have been mistaken as to the person who struck him, and his evidence was not corroborated, as in the other case. They therefore dismissed the case against Donnellan with a caution.