CITY POLICE COURT
. Wednesday, March 15. (Before Ma- J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined! 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and another, who did not appear, was mulcted in the sum of 20s, in default forty-eight hours.—William Henry Scott was" fined 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours. MISCHIEVOUS BEHAVIOUR. William Fleming Perry pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and also to assaulting Lionel Meadows. Sub-inspector Eccles said that last evening threo ladies were decorating the interior of the Wealeyan Church, at Caver&ham, when their attention was drawn to a young man looking in at the window. They drew tho blind down, and soon afterwards stones were heard rattling on the roof. Presently Meadows came to the church, and the ladies told him what had happened. He went outside and spoke to Perry, who struck him.—Accused had nothing to say.—The Magistrate said that accused was' evidently in a mischievous mood through drink. ' On the first charge ho would ho fined 10s, or forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and on the second £3, with the alternative of fourteen days.
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Evening Star, Issue 17919, 15 March 1922, Page 8
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183CITY POLICE COURT Evening Star, Issue 17919, 15 March 1922, Page 8
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