Show BATTERY CASE the defendant is found guilty of striking adker at eix last friday night 31 L lauy appeared before justice W H brown fur trial on a beorn complaint hain with battery the nature m which in siri kini a man aimed baker of mill fork over the with a hammer on the of lat J E booth prosecuted and A G sutherland appeared in behalf of jau y the following gentlemen were boru as jurors in atie cate cat e thomas jud A A antton fe hailes E FJ etcher J V cl tiff and nals johnann Joh naon the complainant baker was th crit cri t b 1 live at fok and have been for lie baat ev n years there un the t of may lie day in question saw camy eliere went aitu the quarry fur im tol ve had a quarrel and bausy ordered ine ailt the aind I 1 went on fur my and came hack when tho was I 1 baliel casiby a liar and ho me nth a hammer that lie libil in his hand cross the hammer was in his liht hand I 1 had a shovel and drill on my shoulder I 1 had beau on the ground about five minutes the second two other men were present joaeph smith and thos jones first bausy seemed to be trying to punch a bar in my face he as working but stopped when I 1 came back alie second time and we then commenced talking about alie ground I 1 him not to take the ark he was about ten or twelve feet away at the time he astruck at me and then pushed me down but I 1 did not strike him smith was acquainted with the parties saw them on the day of may lat saw baki bakir r down and also saw cauby him down bausy was drilling rock at the time as was also smith alie arose over a dispute about the hind baker called bausy a liar they were about ten feet apart saw no striking baker made a thre getting up thos jones knew both individuals he witnessed alie trouble at the time mentioned but did not see bausy baker the defendant M L bausy wag then examined he biad been working at the place since april on may was there and had a dispute with baker over the property baker biad the hammer raised as 1 was prying with a bar I 1 did nothing but baker be fell suddenly and threatened me when he got up ane testimony being all in arguments were made both by the prosecution and defence justice brodu then charged the jury who retired to consider their verdict in alie custody of officer william strong they agreed upon a verdict of guilty and the next morning bausy was 15 and the costs of the suit |