CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11712, 23 July 1901, Page 7

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

B'At the Police Court yesterday afternoon,; before Mr. H. W. Brabant, S.M., John I Gillespie. was charged' that he did, on or tbatiii the sth inst., assault one Charles Belief so as to cause him actual bodily Jar;;,.' Wef-Detective Grace . appeared for * . the prosecution and Mr. Lundon for the accused. i ." I - Dr. Parkes deposed to attending Belief at , the Royal Mail Hotel about one a.m. on the morning of June. 6. Bellet was bleeding profusely under the left eye, his nose ' . M broken and he had a contusion on the forehead. He appeared to have been severely handled. Witness attended to the injured man, who was suffering from shock. Witness., had attended Bellet up to last '- week. "Witness noticed no smell of liquor shout Bellet. The wound under the eye could be caused by a boot, but it was not .consistent with a fall on the kerbing or jailing. . . ' ' Charles Bellet, through an interpreter, fold he Wil3 a nat - of France and resided at 67, Vincent-street. At about a-quarter-pat r eleven on the' evening of June 6 he left the Royal Mail Hotel to go to his lodgings. In t Haydn-street three men . accosted him and asked him for a match; AVstness replied that he had no matches. [, • JJne of the men asked witness for a smoke. Witness said "I've no smoke." ■Iwo of the men then went across the other ■ '■ srae of tho street and the third remained with witness. The man then spoke to witness ! " ttri ' but he could not understand him. Witness asked the man to go away, but the roan "beat him" and took his " umbrella. •Witness then went along to the end of the street Pud then saw four men and pointed •hem out to another gentleman as the men who had» beaten him. Witness then caught bold of one of tho3 ° persona and the others wen beat him" and knocked witness down. ■Witness was kicked on. the,; face under the eye and on the head. The. men were all strangers to him. When witness got up all ; the persons had disappeared. Witness could , not say that accused was the man who assaulted him. Accused did not "hit" him at all, and he believed that he saw accused lor the first time on Monday last in Court. Robert Scott, licensee of the Royal Mail ttotel, deposed that Bellet left his hotel at about ten o'clock on the evening of the as- ■ sault. ■ ■ Alexander Morris Carter, residing in Haydn-street,, deposed that when be came cut of his brother-jn-law's house in Haydnm . street witness saw Bellet, who complained " that somebody had attempted to rob him, and tint he had lost a -'gold-mounted umis brella. Witness, along with several of his : friends, accompanied Bellet to the top of Haydn-street. As soon 'as- they got to the ' top of i..r street Bellet saw four.men on the opposite side to where they were standing and darted across the road towards them and caught hold of * - the . biggest man 01 the four. Witness then saw the whole ', ■ Jour men rush Bellet, and two of the men wagged him acros? the road near St. James' Km"» i. ad witness distinctly caw the men i kick Jiellet. When the men who were committing the assault saw witness and his mends-standing a little distance away, two ' «mu wen came toward witness and said : | • -the}, can have it if they like." Witness \M had seen the accused once or twice before ; . , After the men had kicked Bellet a number ] •....■■' Of tunes witness alleged that he saw Gillespie come away from the fence where Bellet was lying and say he would kick him again As soon as the men had left the fence wit- ,',' ness saw Bellet walk away round a comer, ■the whole four men came up near to wit- , ■. ness, and one of them said that Bellet had ;- stabbed him on the hand. The four men then went down the street, and when the I accused left witness he said: "Now, mum's j the word." Cross-examined by Mr. Lundon: Witness told th 0 _ men to stop kicking Bellet, and When he (witness) said that the men came \ .towards him. Witness was frightened that i , the m would tackle him. One of "witness friends went for the police. Witness ' was not acquainted with either of the other three • men. ."•''■" ' - " ■ '■•'-■ At this stage the Court adjourned till this afternoon. '- -' - - Eggs very scarce, think on the fowls and if them rest; in the meantime use Egg | powder and Custard Powder as capital subI »Mutes. See you get Tucker's. • m ! You can depend upon ridding your children W, ! zJ°? ms wth Wade's Worm Figs, the won-•-6-tiU worm worriers. Price, Is. MEDICAL OPINION. f«wt yo ." or w 'hat soap he recommends nf MV- and ho wiH u l'hold the opinion «i the highest medical authorities on the t ■ *«". viz., Dr. Redwood, Ph. D., F.C.S., * ' > «i' V:' the . late Professor Sir Erasmus Wil a£Vi ' Jolm L. Milton, and Professor J. Attfield. etc.. that Peaks' Soap is the best. 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