BEFORE THE COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 November 1913, Page 5

BEFORE THE COURT.

SALUTARY SENTENCES IN CHRISTCHURCH. TWO MEN GIVEN A MONTH'S "HARD." CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The recent assault case at Lyttelton was heard at the local Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, before Mr T. A. 8.-Bailey, S.M. The Court- was crowded, a large proportion of, those present being waterside workers and seafaring men. Jamee Quinn pleaded guilty to assaulting Win- Mormon at Lyttelton on Friday. / Senior Sergeant Ryan the case for the police, and outlined the facts. Young Morrison and a companion named Lnidlaw, who had come down by the Te Anau, went for a walk in Lyttelton on the day in and «eiv aegggtcd by th''CO j IVhMI, who, after asking sortie Questions-, called them "B— scabs,"' and looked as though they were going to cause trouble. Morrison and Laidlaw consTuered it prudent to make themselves scarce, and went down to the wharf, where the accused came up to them, and after abusing them, struck Morrison a heavy blow on the head. The young man went into the Union Company's office and obtained police protection, Quinn being arrested shortly afterwards. Sergeant Ryan asked that the ac- | cased be bound Over. Mr Bailey: Oh, we wilt (:!6 something more than that! 'His Worship sentenced accused to owe month's imprisonment and: ordered him to find a -surety in £SO to keep the peace fov six months on completing his sentence. Thoinas McKeainey appeared in the Magistrate's Court to answer charges of drunkenness and wilfully damaging a sack of potatoes valued at 3s 6d, the property of Bert Lillev. The accused's conduct was described by the police as ''simply outrageous. A lad named Lillev was going along from a store wheeling a bag of potatoes, when accused came along and «,aid, "Those are scab potatoes!"

Li Hey .said "No!" Accused then took out his kuife and slashed the bag open, cutting himself in this operation. Mr H. W. Bishop, who was on the bench, said he would deal very severely aud, firmly with all offences against law while the present industrial trouble continued. Accused was convicted on the charge of drunkenness and sentenced to one month's hard labour on the other charge.