POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 14

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

TWO MAORIS FINED.

Two Maoris, Lizzie Pickering, alias McCoy, and Samuel Grace, both aged 55, were charged in the Police Court yesterday with assaulting Edward Ladbury. Accused pleaded not guilty. Ladbury, who appeared with his head bandaged, said he lived with a youth known as Jim McCoy, a son of Lizzie Pickering. On Monday evening Grace knocked at the door and spoke to the .youth, and then Pickering rushed into the house. Pickering commenced to shout and create a disturbance and witness attempted to remove her from the house. Grace came to her assistance and struck witness, and Pickering seized a broom with which she struck her son and witness. During the struggle crockery was knocked on to the floor and broken and the room was thrown into disorder. "Pickering was going for me With whatever she could get hold of—the looking-, glass was first - ," added witnessj ;> Ladbury said that in consequence of a blow on the head from the mirror he had to receive medical attention. Pickering, in evidence, said that while attempting to ejecfi her from the house Ladbury struck her a blow in the face. The wound on his head was caused by a fall. "The man was mad and drunk," she added. '<• The magistrate, Mr. McKean, fined each accused £3, in default 10 days' imprisonment. Robert Bell, aged 56 (Mr. McLiver), pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting Richard Charles Ward and using obscene language. Ward gave evidence that Bell, who was a neighbour, made an insulting remark to his wife and mother-in-law. When witness remonstrated accused struck him and knocked him to the ground. On the first charge accused was fined £3 with costs £2 14s 6d, and on the second £2. Charges of being drunk and using obscene language were admitted by Alick Ward, aged 26. Senior-Sergeant Edwards said accused used the language complained of to a restaurant-keeper, and when arrested repeated it, and resisted violently. He had a number of previous convictions;. On the first charge accused was fined 10s. in default 24 hours' imprisonment, and on the second £3, or ten days' imprisonment.

For being drunk in Victoria Street, Peter O'Malley, aged 44, who had a number of previous convictions, was fined £3, and fpr breach of a prohibition order he was fined £2.