Bangor police arrested a woman who allegedly beat another woman with a golf club during a drunken fracas Tuesday afternoon.

Officer James Dearing said he and other officers went to a First Street address at about 5:40 p.m. for a reported fight in progress.

They arrived to find that the fight was over, Dearing said, but a bent golf club lying on the ground seemed to corroborate one woman’s claim that another woman present, Jessie Wallace, 22, had struck her with it.

Dearing said the complainant had bruises on her back, shoulders and over her eye, as well as other scrapes and bruises. Dearing said the complainant was visibly intoxicated.

Wallace, also drunk, claimed the fight had been mutual, and while she admitted waving the club, she denied hitting the complainant with it.

Dearing said most of the witnesses either were biased or too shy to speak, but two people who were not familiar with either woman agreed that Wallace had in fact clubbed the complainant.

Dearing said Wallace made derogatory comments, swore at and threatened the complainant throughout the interview, and when she would not heed a warning to stop, Dearing arrested her for disorderly conduct. He later charged her with aggravated assault.

Dearing said Wallace had to be put in a holding cell at Penobscot County Jail because she fought with corrections officers.

A Bangor man was charged with assault after he allegedly swung a hammer at his girlfriend Tuesday night.

Bangor police Officers Christopher Morley and Rob Angelo went to an Ohio Street address at about 7:30 p.m. where a woman had told them an assault may have taken place.

Morley said the complainant called police from a pay phone after fleeing the apartment where her boyfriend, Danny Mitchell, 37, had swung a hammer near his daughter and stepdaughter, and also had swung it at the complainant. Morley said the woman wasn’t sure if Mitchell had deliberately swung at her or if he had just lost his balance.

The woman said Mitchell had become angry after she confronted him about his drinking. She said he hit a wall and broke a door with the hammer before she and the children fled.

Morley said he and Angelo found Mitchell slumped over a chair in his apartment, which he had torn apart. He was surrounded by toppled chairs, a demolished cabinet and an emptied closet. Morley said the man was so drunk he could hardly stand and could not speak.

Because of the risk of future harm to the complainant and the children, Morley said he arrested Mitchell on a charge of domestic assault.

A kitchenware salesman at the Bangor State Fair reported most of his display goods stolen Monday night.

Bangor police Officer Marty MacRae said the Lifetime brand pots and pans were worth about $6000; the owner may offer a reward.

– Compiled by NEWS reporter Isaac Kimball