Perth Sheriff Court.Before Sheriff Sym.David Mitchell, charged with poaching.There were two previous convictions, the last being three years ago.The sheriff was asked to deal leniently with Mitchell, who was sixty-two years of age, and who offered no resistance to the gamekeeper.Four months.
Dundee Sheriff Court.Before Hon.Sheriff substitute R.C.Walker.
John Murray, Donald Craig, and James Parkes, charged with poaching.
Craig and Parkes fined L1 each or fourteen days; Murray L5 or one month.
Reading Borough Police Court.Before Messrs.W.B.Monck, F.B.
Parfitt, H.M.Wallis, and G.Gillagan.Alfred Masters, aged sixteen, charged with sleeping out on a waste piece of ground and having no visible means of subsistence.Seven days.
Salisbury City Petty Sessions.Before the Mayor, Messrs.C.Hoskins, G.Fullford, E.Alexander, and W.Marlow.James Moore, charged with stealing a pair of boots from outside a shop.Twenty-one days.
Horncastle Police Court.Before the Rev.W.P.Massingberd, the Rev.
J.Graham, and Mr.N.Lucas Calcraft.George Brackenbury, a young laborer, convicted of what the magistrates characterized as an altogether unprovoked and brutal assault upon James Sargeant Foster, a man over seventy years of age.Fined L1 and 5s.6d.costs.
Worksop Petty Sessions.Before Messrs.F.J.S.Foljambe, R.
Eddison, and S.Smith.John Priestley, charged with assaulting the Rev.Leslie Graham.Defendant, who was drunk, was wheeling a perambulator and pushed it in front of a lorry, with the result that the perambulator was overturned and the baby in it thrown out.The lorry passed over the perambulator, but the baby was uninjured.
Defendant then attacked the driver of the lorry, and afterwards assaulted the complainant, who remonstrated with him upon his conduct.
In consequence of the injuries defendant inflicted, complainant had to consult a doctor.Fined 40s.and costs.
Rotherham West Riding Police Court.Before Messrs.C.Wright and G.Pugh and Colonel Stoddart.Benjamin Storey, Thomas Brammer, and Samuel Wilcock, charged with poaching.One month each.
Southampton County Police Court.Before Admiral J.C.Rowley, Mr.H.
H.Culme-Seymour, and other magistrates.Henry Thorrington, charged with sleeping out.Seven days.
Eckington Police Court.Before Major L.B.Bowden, Messrs.R.
Eyre, and H.A.Fowler, and Dr.Court.Joseph Watts, charged with stealing nine ferns from a garden.One month.
Ripley Petty Sessions.Before Messrs.J.B.Wheeler, W.D.
Bembridge, and M.Hooper.Vincent Allen and George Hall, charged under the Poaching Prevention Act with being found in possession of a number of rabbits, and John Sparham, charged with aiding and abetting them.
Hall and Sparham fined L1 17s.4d., and Allen L2 17s.4d., including costs; the former committed for fourteen days and the latter for one month in default of payment.
South-western Police Court, London.Before Mr.Rose.John Probyn, charged with doing grievous bodily harm to a constable.Prisoner had been kicking his wife, and also assaulting another woman who protested against his brutality.The constable tried to persuade him to go inside his house, but prisoner suddenly turned upon him, knocking him down by a blow on the face, kicking him as he lay on the ground, and attempting to strangle him.Finally the prisoner deliberately kicked the officer in a dangerous part, inflicting an injury which will keep him off duty for a long time to come.Six weeks.
Lambeth Police Court, London.Before Mr.Hopkins.'Baby' Stuart, aged nineteen, described as a chorus girl, charged with obtaining food and lodging to the value of 5s., by false pretences, and with intent to defraud Emma Brasier.Emma Brasier, complainant, lodging-house keeper of Atwell Road.Prisoner took apartments at her house on the representation that she was employed at the Crown Theatre.After prisoner had been in her house two or three days, Mrs.Brasier made inquiries, and, finding the girl's story untrue, gave her into custody.Prisoner told the magistrate that she would have worked had she not had such bad health.Six weeks hard labor.
