TO-DAY.
On the Court resuming this morning. His Ilonour, in summing up the case, did not place much reliance on die statement of children. Such charges, brought up by children, were common, and further, their imaginative poiver was very strong. Each of these offences was indictable, and it was open for the parents, relatives, or friends of the children to take the matter into the Court, hut this was not done. The plaintiff in this case was a public man, and had been assaulted in a public place without justification, or the slightest provocation. The plaintiff was certainly entitled under tlie circumstances to reasonable Compensation, and it would be for the jury td decide: , , The juiy retired at 10.3d; and at 11 a.m., returned with a verdict in favour of the plaintiff with £10 damages, with costs on the lowest scale.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 50, 14 March 1903, Page 2
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