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In the Police Court. (Berony Jupae Conroy.) Walsh va. Kent —Action for Assault. HE announcement in the Ten Gnns yesterday that this case would be heard drew a crowded court, the audi ence chiefly composed of citizens who never are seen in the court from one end of the year to another. The assault took place on Friday last in Mr. Keating’s of fice, Treasury Department. Walsh had been given an envelope addressed to him self, at the Board of Works, to draw payment at the Treasury office for work he had done in connection with the de corations of the Custom Mouse. He de livered this letter to the defendant and wired him to open it; this Keating refus ed to do, as it was not a ce mu dressed to him. Walsh was in Keating's private office and the latter ordered him to go outside. He refused to do this till his business was ittended to. Keating then called a clerk and sent him for a policeman to remove Walsh. Some abusive words were then made use of and Keating fell backward to the floor in avoiding the first blow de livered by Walsh. Then blows were freely given by the defendant, who knacked the plaintiff down in the hall. Other clerks interfered and separated the she two men, but not before Walsh received a severe wound over th The above is a summary of the evidence at came out in the examination of plain tf and defendant, and Messrs... White and I. LeMeysurier, Mgr. Gibbs app ed for plaintiff and Hon. E. 2. Morris, C., for defendant. In Summing Up the evidence, the Ju did that, officials 4 public offices were bound to be courte me to the public and not to be the least d emise. In this case Walsh exceeded his right in going into the defendant's pri vate apartment and acting offensively, as Are evidence showed he did, it did perfectly fetter rot nidres: : in it was not the inoffensive person if he would hope the court believe, as could he judg edd freay in which he gave his evidence, he language he need, as aworn to, was vile and contributed to bring on the assault. Case dismissed,
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St Johns Evening Telegram
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Wed, Nov 06, 1901
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