MAGISTRATE'S COURT CAESS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 13 May 1912, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT CAESS

BY TELEGRAPH—TUB"* ASSOCIATION

PALMERTON N., May 13. At the Magistrate's Court this morning a young man named Ernest Vincent was charged with assaulting Gertrude Humphreys, using obscene language, and assaulting Frederick Groves, an old man. Witnesses stated that both assaults were severe, the old man being knocked down twice by accused for no apparent reason, and when the woman interfered she was also struck. Accused was fined £5 on each assault charge, in default 14 days' imprisonment on each, sentences "to be cumulative. The obscene language charge was dismissed.

Two farmers were fined £1 each and costs for exposing lice-infected sheep for sale, and another was fined a similar amount for allowing a horse to wander on the railway, the animal having been run into by a train and killed.