POLICE COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. ■ (Dcforo Dr A. McArthur, S.M.) Charles Cockshull was fined 20s for having refused to quit the Central Hotel bar when requested to do so by t.lio If. ■eensco. ■ Colin Campbell, previously convicted, mas fined £1 for a second offence of drunkenness, ‘ . Robert Janies was charged rvitlx having unlawfully assaulted Anders Pedersen. Mr Noilson appeared for complainant and Mr AVilford for defendant A plea of guilty ivas entered, but in extenuation it was urged that complainant had slandered James (who' was a tramway employee until recently) in the ' presence of 'several , people. His Worship decided that a technical assault had been committed. Defendant was fined Os and costs (£1 Is solicitor’s fee).' .Henry .Brett,- who trespassed on tho premises of Henry Drown, and refused to leave when requested to do so, was fined £l, with option of seven days’ imprisonment.

, Stella Taylor was sent to prison for throe months on a charge of vagrancy. Hugh William Henry Gerard was charged that on .August uth, at Paraparaumu, he did cruelly illtreat'a dog. The facts of the case were set out in a report of the proceedings of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals two weeks ago, the offence consisting in putting a hot boiled egg in the month of a deg. Mr I{. B. Williams conducted the case for the So ciety, and Mr Myers appeared for defendant. A fine of 10s was inflicted, with £T 15s costs.

.William Lythborg, who was found in a state of helpless drunkenness, was convicted, and ordered to pay 17s Od medical expenses; in default seven days’ imprisonment. Samuel-Courtney was charged with having assaulted Michael O’Donnell. Complainant’s story was that while in the Panama Hotel drinking a pot of ale he was suddenly assaulted by Courtney. Accused gave evidence that-he had been annoyed by O'Donnell, and that when O'Donnell came into the hotel on tho night of the assault all witness did was to give him a push, and toll him to go away. Ills Worship had no hesitation in saying that ho believed the story of thoprosecution. - Courtney would be fined £2 and costs (£1 5s 6d). -