POLICE COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10707, 1 September 1896, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

(Continuedfrom Monday) I ') AiLEQED ASdAmiTj [ Iden Goble was charged with aisaulting Edward Stewart on August 24 oh th^i!Junction,H,oad. He $le*dßd not guilty. Mr R6y 'appeared for* Mi complainant, and Mr Weston for the defendant. ' / " r The complainant gave evidence that on the_day.in iCL.u( estiou he.waa.Dissing a,man nkmedOßL'- Johnston riding^a\r»c>tiorse. Johnston called out for witness to pullover, but witness thinking he was on the 1 right side refused- to do so. Whan he passed someone jumped' on the dray and pulled him down, on the floor and struck him. The man who assaulted him .was in' Johnston's company 1. He never, taw the man before. The man was Gobei. He gay« the man no provocation. George,- Hasjett, father-ip-law of Stewart, gave-evidence ai to" Stewart bearing evidence of an assault on the day in question. ■_ The defence was that Stewart was the laggreseor. Goble, a surveyor's aisistant, stated that he was out for a walk with Johnston, who w»s exercising the,racehorse Locafius. ; Stewart came along driving a dray, Stewart would not give way to Johnston, and the racehorse was .in danger of being jammed s at tha a^e of the cutting, wheni witneii hadhojipdt Stewart'i horse's head aside. Stewart got down from the dray and threatsned to kick witness* anatomy, and' m&do a rash at witness, at the same time making a blow at witness. Witness then struck). Stewart a couple of blows, and said tI ;" Now, youhaire had enough }. gahomQi" By Mr Roy.: StewartVaccoimt of 'the affair was false.. By the Bench': tie felt justified in marking Stewart under the circumstances. Johnson was leading Locarius. Richard J«hmon, horse trainer, gave evidence that he asked Stewoirito pull aside, but Stewart said that he would see him firet. Stewart had an altercation with Goble,-and wanted to fight. He asked Goble to catch hold of JStew.art's -horse's head, otherwise p.thete would have been an; accident.' v )i'1 ',- f Michael Jones, livery stable proprietor, gave evideped. that in leading stallions, the person always kept to the right of the road, in order to have better control over the animal when passing an object). L' The^Bench retired, and On returning ? Mrl-Stock said' that they had fully Considered the matter, and had came to the conclusion ■ that Gobel's interference was unjustifiable. They would fine him £2, >and costs, £2 3s; in default one 1 month. ' : The 1 Court roser i < f\" ' '"' '> • •■ -j-'il- -' ' v., - _-' ; o \

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