COURT BY TELEPHONE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13575, 5 December 1907, Page 2

COURT BY TELEPHONE.

American papers relate that, with 35 miles of hill and plain between tha judge and the accused Justice Carroll, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, recently heard the case of Albert Bristol, charged with assault and battery on the persoon of Miles Fitzgerald. The defendant entered a plea of guilty, and the judge; imposed a fine of £3 and costs. It appears that on the previous day, at the Bard Ranch, three miles from Cheyenne, Albert Bristol pulled Miles Fitzgerald off a. rowing machine and gave him a severe thrashing. Fitzgerald telephoned to town a complaint, against Bristol, and a warrant for the arrest of the latter was issued. Bristol, when informed by telephone that he was wanted for assault and. battery, took up the matter with Attorney Ross, of Cheyenne, retaining him by telephone. Attorney Ross appeared before Justice Carroll and said Bristol desired to enter a, plea of guilty. This plea was received by the justice over the telephone, and he imposed a fine of £3 and costs by telephone. Bristol informed the Court that he would send a cheque for the amount of the fino by first mail. '<