Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-22
MUNICIPAL COURT.
Two Gases for Assault and Battery
Are Disposed of.

The attention of the municipal court
Saturday forenoon was taken up with
the disposal of two cases, one of which
! had for its setting the town of Chel-
sea while the other was of local ma
| ture, and in each the charge was as
sault and battery.
The Chelsea case grew out of trouble
| between one stephen Dingley and Mrs.
Lima Mullaney, both of whom are en-
ployed at the National Home at To-
gus, and was apparently the result
of domestic infelicity. Mrs. Mullaney,
who is Dingley's housekeeper, alleged
that on Thursday June Is, he struck
her, beat her and locked her up in a
closet; that he had been drinking, and
| that she locked the door on him and
wouldn't let him into the house; that
after supper he broke into the house
and abused her.
Dingley, in reply to the usual ques-
ton by the court, allowed that he was
not guilty, and claimed that Mrs. Null
laney was throwing stones a him all
the way from the National Home to
his home. In regard to breaking into
the house he claimed that he took a
screen from a window and gained an
entrance in that way; that the woman
had big stone with which she hit
him over the head and cut him and
| that had he not worn a stiff hat he
would have been seriously injured He
force with the woman than was nee
| essary to protect himself.
At the conclusion of the hearing the
court found the respondent guilty
| and continued the case for sentence.
In the second case the principals
were employees Of the Vickery & Hill
publishing house. in which William
A. Dinsmore, aged "a years, was be-
fore the court to answer to a charge
of assault and battery preferred
against him by Give Sylvester, aged
II. which assault was alleged to have
taken place Friday afternoon. Dins-
| more was represented by Former
Judge Benedict F. Maher and pleaded
| not guilty.
In his story to the court Sylvester
claimed that the respondent struck
him several times on three different
occasions, two of which occurred in
the publishing house and the third on
Court street, after the employees had
left for the night. He also claimed
that Dinsmore had no cause for provo
cation. Sylvester appeared in court
with one eye BACKED and his nose
bore evidence Of injury.
For his side of the story Dinsmore
claimed that Sylvester had .'jostled'
him during the trouble at the publish
ing house and had knocked him over
some stacks; that he had also said
something to him but just what he
said the respondent did not know. In
regard to the Court street incident
Dinsmore claimed that Sylvester was
on the opposite side of the street and
invited him over; that he went over
and the mixup followed. Dinsmore
also claimed that some of the bones
of his right hand were broken in the
encounter.
Evidence was introduced by the
prosecution to show that during one
of the encounters between the two in
the publishing house the respondent
had his head down on one arm to pro-
tect his face and that Dinsmore struck
him several times Witness further
said that he did not see Sylvester
strike the respondent at ALL
From the nature of the evidence
given in the court found cause to hold
the respondent guilty and sentence in
the case was continued