A Pembroke man was released on $8,000 bail yesterday on a charge of assaulting a woman with a glass at the Spinning Wheel Nightclub.

Magistrate Archibald Warner ordered Ellsworth Eugene Wilson, 54, of Mount Hill, to return to court on February 14 for mention while Police prepare for a preliminary inquiry on the indictable charge.

Wilson was not required to enter a plea on the charge he wounded Pauline O'Connor. He is represented by lawyer Kim Wilson.

Wilson had been in Police custody since the incident and was escorted to Magistrates' Court by two Police officers.

Mr. Warner also set two trial dates in June for Wilson who denied charges he assaulted Judith Outerbridge on November 19 and Richard Benjamin on October 10.

Wilson also denied having an offensive weapon on October 10. He will be tried for the November incident on June 9 and June 1 for the October 10 incident.

Mr. Warner set bail at $1,000 and $800 respectively.

ST GEORGE'S BOOZE THIEF JAILED SIX MONTHS CTS St George's booze thief jailed six months An alcoholic man was imprisoned for six months for breaking and entering a St.

George's bar and stealing enough liquor to make a powerful cocktail.

Dion Burgess pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court yesterday to stealing one litre bottles of Bacardi White Rum, Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch, Gordons' gin, and Canadian Club rye whiskey from Kippies Bar on Water Street, St. George's on January 22.

Burgess, 34, also admitted walking into Somers Market, heading for the liquor section, grabbing a bottle of Cockspur rum and running out the door.

Mr. Warner imprisoned Burgess for six months for the Kippie's bar job and 90 days for the Somers Market heist.

Burgess told Mr. Warner: "I'm trying to clean up my act. You know, I'm up at the Woodshop. They got a nice programme for my problem up there.

"I talked to the owner at Kippie's and told him I would pay the money. He's like a father to me.'' Mr. Warner however was not impressed, reminding Burgess that he had been getting help around Bermuda for years.

He added: "You have been given the opportunity with them and this is how you show them and us.'' Junior Crown counsel Graveney Bannister told the court the Police scenes of crime unit found Burgess' prints on a broken window and on a bottle of Cockspur rum left on a table inside the bar.

Burgess denied the charge while in Police custody, only to recant later.

In the Somers' Market incident, Mr. Bannister said Burgess was arrested by Police later that morning and it was found his breath smelled strongly of alcohol and his speech was slurred.

After verbally abusing the officers, Burgess was taken to a Police cell to rest.

MAGISTRATE'S HEARD IT ALL BEFORE' CTS Magistrate's `heard it all before' A Warwick man got one more chance to clean up his act yesterday after Magistrate Archibald Warner noted he had "told me all that before'' when asking for a fine on a drug charge.

Victor Llewellyn Trott was fined $300 yesterday after pleading guilty to having drug equipment last February.

Trott, 36, of Paget, told Mr. Warner he had recently kicked drugs, was now working and had been paying his fines.

He said he did not know why the charge of having two radio antennae and a paper twist with crack cocaine residue on him on February 26 was not put to him when he was fined recently.

Both men agreed he last appeared before Mr. Warner on drug charges about six weeks ago.

Junior Crown counsel Graveney Bannister said Police Task Force officers went to Ord Road, Paget and observed Trott with his back to them in a "hand-to-hand transaction'' among a group of men near the Jamaican Grill at 10 p.m.

The group dispersed but Trott was caught and appeared to officers as "nervous and fidgety''.

The two modified radio antennae were found on him during a search.

Trott told Police: "These are for smoking crack. I just finished smoking.'' Later tests found the antennae and the paper twist had trace amounts of cocaine on them.

When Trott told Mr. Warner he was "trying to straighten up my act'' and "everything is straight now'' the magistrate said: "You always come in here and tell me that.'' Later, after more explanation by Trott, Mr. Warner quipped: "I'm giving you enough rope to choke yourself. $300! I think you're fooling me, but that's all right.

"This is about your third time before me recently. And you are giving me the same story,'' he added. "I understand what you're saying though. Pay the fine by 29 February. In default (of payment) 30 days (in prison). You've come in here and told me that before.''