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.