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I LOCAL POLICE-COURTS. I

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I LOCAL POLICE-COURTS. I CARDIFF. (Before Mr. EltNEST RHYS WILLIAMS. I .leputr-stipendiary). I A LAPOFR YEMBER AND HIS PRKSIDhM. The full and complete title 01 tne laUUIln:IO Union is "The National Amalgamated linou of Labourers of Great Britain and Ireland. The president IJr Cbarles Stenner) sum- moned Thomas Kees. a member of the VulOn. for assaulting him and threatening him on Octo?r 27. Mr. Lloyd Mcyrick amiearcd for the preaid?t..u.d Mr. R,??, defended lnmself-a :i\elll\:h '('w!wr'ttfÙ;d:Ifi:: I more than ono aen^. Mr. Lloyd Meyrick, in opening, slated thdi Nir. Stenner was presideut of the t nion with th extensive llatU. and Thoiuas Rees was a member. The defendant was a man who did not mince his wordi, and seemed to let Deople know when he was at all annoyed. He was. rnhappily. a little put out with his president on the morning of the 27th. and expressea his irritation in suth H manuer that the pre8¡den had very good reason to seek protection, and I to ComlJlaiu of an assault, which would have been a worse one but for interference. The complainant was then called, and stated that on the morning in question he was called hy the manager to the slipway in reference to the defendant. He saw Mr. Knowlcs and Mr. Carney, who complained of the defeiidiiiit"a (?.?d.(-t the P@ViUU?; night, when he had th-,Ii?d a ..pl., of men Whilst talking to the manager the defendant sailed up and howled. Ifraud I You're an employers' man! Iîl do for you before you get away!" lIr. Stenner then called a Ulan Darned Partridge, who held the violent member oft whilet witness tried to -et away home. But on his way h,e I"' R-. headed him off again at the Plymouth Hotel, and. u^ing abominable language, threatened to "knite him." lIe looked like doing damage, but the president again escaped. The defendant undertook to c-roevexaniine tht, high official on this. l'y f the stipendiary, and the conversation ran thus: Defendant: NewSte nnerlyou was woin to the eHpway who Was lU with. What did I say when I came up?—I d.t k.,)?. But you must know!—Well -you said you wanted onr money, or something like that. And, you told me straight you would have nothing to do with me?—Yes. And I said. "Wlio pays yon to look after 11'? Am I to collect tIly money at the docks when I am working at the slipway. And you looked at me like a pis: Th" Depnty-stipendiary; I won't allow yon to talk like that. Ask him any questions yon have, properly. Defendant (continuing*: And I said "You're a master's man, and I'll put it Oil you"? Did I or not?—Yes. you did. Well. then, yon went into the yard and fetched Partridge?—Yes; and Partridge held you back from me I caught you by the Plymouth again, and I Ntlled "Stenner." and you wouldn't look round. I called to you to come and explain my language you used did not war. runt my looking round. Thomas Partridge was called, and corrobo- rated the technical assault. He did not hear the threats. lie had only just come up. and he did not hear the language which the presi- dent objected to. The Deputy-stipendiary explained that the act of catching hold of a man to prevent him doing as he wished to was in law an aBsanlt The threats rested only on the evidence of the complainant. He thought, therefore, that the circumstance* of the r:kqe would be met by biuding the erring memher over to keep the peace for six months. This was done. CHARGE AGAINST A PUBLICAN. Margaret May wWs\m:la;;defsoe I Criterion Hotel, was summoned under some, what remarkable circumstauces for permitting drunkenness fipon her premies oil October 23. Ir. Bekher defended. The ease was e". plained by l'oJicc-con8t"bJe Dicks, who stated ,that at about 9.20 o'clock on that evening he vi>ited the hou.e. from something somebody had told him in St. Mary-street, and in a com- partment there discovered a man asleep. He h, ."i a glass of soda-water before him on the counter, and the barman was behind. The m;»R ?. l?,?t out by the barman, but he was too intoxicatffi to go a way. and was locked UP. He pleaded guilty to drunkennefes before the bench next day. For the defence Mr, Belcher said that in all his experienre he had not l'ome across a prose- cution on such a weak pretext as this. He caHed the landlady and the barman, who said that the ma.ii came in with a woman-hi, wife -who called for the soda-water. She was served, but the barman, observing the man's condition, ordered him out. He did not o. and his wife went out. saying she was going to fetch a cab to take him. In the meantime the constable camo in. The man had not been there more than seven minutes altogether, and was supplied with nothing. Mr. Belcher contended that it worild have been shiimeful to throw the man out while his wife was promising to get a cab. He had not got drunk in that house, but in houses near, and the defendant could not be charged with permitting drunkennes when immediate steps were being taken to have him removed, The Deputy-stipendiary held that a tech- nical offence had. however, been committed, and imposed a mmimioed penalty of 5s. and costs. In answer to tr. Belcher his worship stated that he would not hold it against the licence.

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