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Slapped Waitress
Across Face—Pays
£5-4-2
“THIS MAN slapped my client in
the face and when taxed by Con
stable Deely with having done so, he
admitted doing it and said he would
do it again!,” declared Mr. C. H. P.
Kelley (of Macpherson and Kelley) at
the Dandenong Court on Monday,
when appearing for Alma Amelia
Bedcoek; who preferred a charge of
unlawful assault against a young' man
named Harry Kemmis.
Alma Amelia Bedcoek, waitress, of 72
'Lonsdale St., Dandenong, said that while
.returning home from a visit to her
-mother’s place on Sunday, April Ist, she
heard voices at her sister's place and
saw defendant standing, at the side of
the' house. “Is that you, Harry?,” she
called out. With that defendant rushed
across, knocking a couple of palings off
the fence, grabbed her with one hand
arid slapped her across the face* with the
•other.
Gross-examined by accused, witness
aaid that she had told him to quieten
-down his row.
“Was it your job to interfere?,” ac
cused asked her.
.“Yes, under the circumstances,” wit
ness replier. “The language was too
•much.” She didn’t remember saying any
thing that would cause accused to slap
her face, she added.
“If you didn’t say anything what reaj
son would I have for slapping you?,”
asked accused.
“Just your temper I suppose,” replied
Constable J. Deely testified that fol
lowing a complaint from. Mrs. Bedcoek
he went to 22 Frankston Rd. and asked
accused if he had assaulted her. “I did,
and I would do it again,” he replied.
Keimnis told him. lie had acted as he
had done because of the thiners Mrs;
Bedcoek had said about him. She said
that, die was always causing rows and
-carrying on with her sister, ' (
. Accused, wlip Said lie had nothing to
’•say, wag firied ‘ £2, in default; 7 days, arid
ordefed fo pay JE3/4/2 costs. ;
$