IN THE COURTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 13 May 1912, Page 6

IN THE COURTS.

(Per Preas Association.) Palmerston, May 13. At the Magistrate's Court this morni:v a young man named Ernest \ incent was charged with assaulting Gertrude Humphreys, using obscene hvn-o-unge, and assanling Frederick Groves —an old man. Witness stated that both assaults were severe, the old man being knocked clown twice by accused for no apparent reason, and when the woman interfered she was also struck. Accused was fined £5, on each assault charge, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, cumulative. The obscene language charge was dismissed. Two farmers wi'W fined fcl each and costs for exposing lice-infected sheep for sale. Another was fined a similar amount for allowing a horse to wander on The railway, the animal being run into by a train and killed.