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Show A HOTEL08 FINED Under the pseudonym of John Do, tho solicitor for the Healy hotel was tried In the police court this morning on the charge of assault and battery.' The complaint was sworn to by If. Melo, a fellow competitor for hotel guests representing the Windsor hotel. ho-tel. It was alleged that the first-named first-named hotel solicitor infringed upon the latter's territory and that when the complainant remonstrated with the defendant, he was struck and knocked down. Tlie testimony giveu showed that the men had had trouble before re-, gardlng the line of demarkatlon between be-tween the two hotels, and that harsh words and assaults had ensued. Tho line in question lies midway of Twenty-fifth street, on Wall avenue, facing the Union depot, and it appeared In the evidence that, on July 2 tho Healy man, John Doe, stepped over the line toward tho Windsor territory. Melo, the Windsor man, called the defendant de-fendant bad names and the latter "shoved him away." The shoving was rather harsh and the old gentleman lost his balance, to the extend that he fell to the pavement and "skinned his arm." The court advised John Doe that he had better not undertake to take the law into his own hands hereafter, and that if there were any disputes regarding re-garding boundary lines, that the matter mat-ter had better be settled In court. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $15. |