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BARRY POLICE COURT.

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BARRY POLICE COURT. HON DAY. Before Major-General H. H. Lee and Alderman J. C. Meggitt. EXTENSION OF TIME. An extension of five hours was granted to Mrs Brooks, of Culley's Hotel, Barry Docks, on the occasion of the annual dinner and ball of the Hibernia Benefit Society last Wednesday. CAUTIONED FOR LOITERING. Thomas Bougher, Thomas Richards, and Arthur Jefferies were cautioned for loitering about in the subway leading to Barry Dock Railway Station. POACHER TRAPPED IN HIS OWN SNARE. Frederick Gully, of Cadoxton, was charged with trespassing in pursuit of game on land in the occupation of Mrs Claude Thompson. Gamekeeper Bailey said on the 23rd ultimo he saw defendant on a piece of land off Barry-road, Cadoxton, in the act of taking a rabbit from a snare. There were also fifteen other snares set.—The Bench imposed a fine of 20s and costs, or fourteen days' imprison- ment in default. HUBBY'S IHNNER OR THE PRAYER. MEETING SENSIBLE REMARKS BY GENERAL LEE. Minnie Selmes, of Crogan Hill, Cadoxton, summoned her husband, James Selmes, a labourer, with assaulting her. Complainant said on the 25th ultiuo her husband came home from work, and was cooking his dinner when she came into the kitchen. He then struck her, and also threatened her with an axe. She ran into the garden, and he there knocked her down.—Com- plainant called her eleven-year-old son, and he corroborated his mother's testimony.—Defendant said when he went home from work of an evening he generally found her out. She was at a mission or somewhere else.—Complainant: Yes, Tuesday at the Band of Hope, and Wednesday at the prayer meeting. (Laughter.) -Defendant: What about Alondays ?—Complainant: Monday at the prayer meeting too. (More laughter.)—Defen- dant Go away, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.—General Lee It is a dastardly and cowardly thing to strike a woman. At the same time it is a pity that complainant doea not take care of her home first. Religion should begin at home. (To defendant) You are bound over in the sum of £10 to come up for judgment when called upon. Now try and make it up with your wife kindness with a woman goes a long way. SAUCY SUSAN IN DOCK AT B*RRY. Susannah Miller, a woman well-known at court, was brought up in custody to answer a charge of assaulting John Braund, a bailiff. Braund's story was that on the 2nd of last month he was in possession at defendant's house for arrears of rent, when defendant endeavoured to put him out, first by attacking him with a chair and axe, but these he took from her. She then got in several blows with a poker, discolouring his eye.—Defendant: How many persons were in the house ?—Braund Two women, drinking whisky. Defendant admitted she tried to put the man out. They had a general scuffle, and the man kicked her.- General Lee: How did he get the black eye?- Defendant: He fell against a chair, and I also fell. (Laughter.)—Mr J. W. Morris (magistrates' clerk): Defendant is also charged with being drunk and disorderly on the 10th of October.— Defendant: I have already done seven days for that. General Lee: You have forgotten.— Defendant They have forgotten, not me. (Laugh ter.)-P. C. Rogers having given evidence, stating that defendant was so drunk that she had to be taken to the police-station in a milk-cart, the Bench sent the woman to prison for seven days for the assault, and a month for being drunk and disorderly, the sentences to run concurrently. BREAKING A BOTTLE ON THE HIGHWAY. Mary Pennington, of 19, Palmerstown road, Cadoxton, was charged with breaking a bottle on the highway on Saturday, the 25th ultimo. P.C. Loveluck said that about ten o'clock on the night in question he saw defendant, in Vere-street, throw a bottle at a man, and falling on the pave- ment, it smashed. Subsequently defendant came to him, and begged him to overlook it.- Defendant It could not have been me I was not out of the house that night.—Sergeant B. Davies said about eleven o'clock on the night of October 25th he was on duty outside the Royal Hotel, when the woman came up and said she had broken a bottle in Vere-street, and the constable was going to report her, and she asked him to over- look it. She gave the name of Mrs Jones, and said she lived next door to Mr Robertson in Palmerstown-road.—Defendant, on oath, denied being out on the evening in question. She finished her shopping about seven o'clock, and then remained in the house waiting for her husband, who was working in the Rhondda. She did not know P.C. Lewis, neither did she call at the police-station on the night in question.—John Pennington, the husband of the defendant, said the first he heard of the case was last Saturday evening, when two policemen called and asked to see his wife. He told them she was out. They asked if she spoke Welsh and wore glasses. He replied in tho affirmative. One of the cn^ables then said, "We have made a mistake. "-P.C.'s Lewis and Salter said the woman srio'-<e to them on the night in question, and said she had broken a bottle in Vere-street. They were ?n- nn was the woman. She was not wearing then, and had a shawl over her head.—Tha Bench further questioned defendant's husband itspcubing his whereabouts on this particular night, and he said he was working in a pit near Caerphilly till six o'clock, and left, Cardiff for Cadoxton shortly aftjr ten o'clock. His wife was not dressed when be ;ot home. The summons had also been left wltn a Mrs Jones for a day and a night at No. 3 in the same abreet.-The Bench retired to consider their decision, and on returning into court dis- missed the case. CHARGED WITH THEFT AND DRUNKENNESS. Thomas Parker, a fireman, residing ab Grange- town, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to stealing a table- knife, value Is, the property of Joseph F. Martin, of the Windsor Hotel, Penarth. Prisoner called ab the hotel on Sunday afternoon, and was supplied with bread and cheese, and on leaving took the knife with him. Parker was subsequently arrested by P.C. Knott for being drunk-and dis- orderly. and the knife was found in his possession. —The Bench bound the prisoner over under the First Offender's Act for the theft, but he was fined 7a 6d for being drunk and disorderly. THE TOPERS. Three-half-crowns was the penalty imposed upon Charles Daulby, Henry Smith, John Lloyd, and Joseph Lynch for being drunk and disorderly; Harry Cannell and Robert Mallet, a crown each and Michael Linahan, half-a crown.

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