RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Saturday, 10th September.
(Before A. C. Strode, Esq., R.M.) °i g
Charge op A.ssa.um. —Jas. Wilkeg, alias "Brummy," was brought' before the Court, charged, on the information of Robert Safcton, with having beaten him on the Bih icat. Prosesecutor said that he was a paintar findpaperhanger by trade. About one o'clock on the afternoon of the day in question he met his wife coining out of a passage in St Andrew, street, when he threw a bottle of porter at her. Immediately " Brummy " came out of the passage and hit him on the jaw, otherwise maltrentins; him. Wilkes' version of the affair was that he h?ard the "thud" of the blow on the woman's hea3, and n^.turally took her part asrainst tiie agsre?so-. Witness a Ided that some fifty people collected on the spot, who all said to him, " You did not give him half enough." Witness admitted, in answer to the Magistrate, that he was cohabiting with prosecutor'^ wife. Fine! L 3; in default to go to gaol for 15 days, with hard labor. ... A summons ease, Cooky. Agnew, involving a clnrge of assault, lapsed on account of the nonappearance of the parties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 805, 12 September 1864, Page 5
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