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Western Star, Issue 256, 3 August 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

■ For kissing a barmaid, a Frenchman named Philip Demeurs was last week fined 10s and costs by Mr Watt at the City Court. The complainant, Alice Reynolds, deposed that on the 23rd inst., shortly after she had gone into bar at the Crown Hotel, the accused came downstairs and kissed her. This was in broad daylight and in an open bar, and she at once sent for a constable. Mr Turton, who appeared for the defence, called Demeurs, who denied that he had kissed the girl; and said that having been a lodger in the house a great deal of “spooneying” had been going on between himself and Miss Reynolds, and that the day before, while they were chaffing, she had thrown a glass of beer in his face. His Worship considered the girl’s statement the more likely one, and inflicted a fine as above stated,