COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS. This Day.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1697, 27 July 1875, Page 2

COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS. This Day.

{Before Eobert Graham, Esq., Colonel Nation, and Captain Daldy, Justices of the Peace. DRUNK AGAIN. James Leslie, of sallow countenance wag discovered by Constable Axam, in Queenstreet, in a afcate of drunkenness, and was Sued 203 and costs. Charles Robinson, one of the would-be pugilists in the Auckland Hotel yard, was subsequently found drunk acd exhausted by Constable Winslow, wa3 also fined 20a and costs. HENRY MACJNSELI'.S DOG. Henry Maunsell, an old man, was summoned for allowing his dog to be at large without a collar. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Constable O'Reilly deposed that he saw the dog with defendant, who did not deny the ownership. Defendant : My name is Harry Maunsell. I came from Leicester, and never had a dawg in my life ; the dawg is a pet, belonging to Mrs Chapman, of Hobson-street. Fined Is and costs. Defendant : Will this afternoon do. The Bt-nch : Yes. Defendant : Theo, I'll run home direcbly, and got the money from the Prince of Wales. Mary SLeeney was lined Is and costs for a similar offence. M'CASLIX'S COATS. Geo ge M'Cislin, cow-keeper, appeared in answer to a summons, charging him with allowing t-*.o cows to stray in Howe-street on the 17th instant. Mr. M'Cislin said that he would plead guilty, but the cows were a perpetual nuisance ; there was no such thing as keeping them wifchin bounds. He should tike to dispose of them cheap. Fined 10s and costs. A widow's goat. Mary Mclvor, a poor, but apparently a respectable person, appeared in answer to a summons charging her with allowing her goat to stray in England-street, Ponsonby, on the 20th instant. Mrs Mclvor said that her goat was of a lively disposition, and during her temporary illness, had broke its tether and got loose. She would take care that "Nanny" did not " take her walks abroad" again without her consent The Court commiserated the widow, but the law must be obeyed ; they Would only impose a fine of 5s and costs. '• MOKE LIGHT." Thomas Wendover was charged with a breach of the Harbour Regulations in not exhibiting a light on board the ketch " Maid of the Mill," on the 19fch inst. Defendant said he was not guilty ; he was not acquainted with the regulations. Mr J. B. Russell said this was no excuse ; he could get a copy for 2s. 6d. Defendant protested that he was a persecuted man. Sergeant Martin and Constable Samson proved that defendant had no light burning on that evening. The Court said that the Harbour Regulations must receive attention, and as a reminder defendant must pay a fine of 20s. and costs. Mr. Russell asked for his fee of one guinea, which the Court allowed. A REFRACTORY BOY. John Mulhora was charged with absconding from the Industrial School in Howestreet, Newton, on the 24th insfc. Mr John Stickley, master of the school, stated that the boy had run away fourteen times; he had tried all sorts of remedies but in vain. He had tied him to another boy's leg, but he broke loose, and his last caper was getting out of an upper window and slipping down the water spout. The Court: Why do you run away, from the school. Don't you get food enough ? Boy : Plenty ; but I get whipped. The Court: How many times have you been whipped. Boy : Once. The Court ordered the boy to be whipped and sent to his friends at Papakura, if they would take charge of him. WHO OWNS IT? George Henry Evans again appeared on a charge of stealing half a sovereign, the property of Henry Wolfe, on the 23rd inst. Mr Joy, for prisoner, pleaded not guilty. Henry Wolfe, seaman, native of Germany, discharged from the Fairy on the 23rd inst, was paid £20 in notes. He went drinking with a portion of hia money. He could not have lost more than a pound. He went in the Auckland Hotel, but he was so drunk he could not say whether he lost a half-sove-reign. He might have seen the prisoner before, but did not know. He was too drunk to know any thin". He knew he had a half-sovereign somewhere in his possession. To Mr Joy : He did not find the halfsovereign. George Henry Clarke, a settler deposed that he was in the Auckland Hotel when he saw prosecutor drop a coin, which he thought was half-a-sovereign, he waa certain it was

gold. Prisoner picked it up and put it info V his pocket. He saw that prosecutor •»*■ *' S stupidly drunk, and asked prisoner to ri ' the money back. He then drew ©ut shilling and offered it, but not likin - to see the man defrauded; he deeited prioner to restore the proper coin; but •«■ he did not, he communicated what he" sB seen to Sergt. Sanderson. I 'j

Cross-examined by Mr Joy : Did jiot fc him take the purse out of his peck et wt^ he picked up the coin ; he saw him tiH half-a-Eovereign in his in his pocket and tender a shilling in the place of it. To the Court: The prisoner was a Btranee. to him ; he did not know that he had eveV seen him before ; he was searched af «, " station. w ™M

Jcbn Fpeeiinp, farm labourer of Rettneri was in the hotel at the time of the allege! robbery; seme beer was called for when a coin fell fum the prosecutor, as he though? be saw it rolling, it was yellow, he believed it was gold ; be was sure it looked yellow : Mr Joy : Yen are sure it was not "gietn" Witnes : Quite sure, I'm not so "green" as not distinguish green from gold, fr made no remarks. Prisoner pulled out bis puise and offered to be searched. Be could not say what coin it was, but he would' swear it looked yellow. Sergeant Eichard Sanderson deposed that he went to the Auckland Hotel, and saw Mr Clarke at the time of the alleged robbery, when he was informed o f the loss of the half-soverein, and that prisoner had put it into his pocket, and substituted a shilling for it. He took nog. session of prisoner's purse and found foui sovereigns, one half-sovereign, and two notes, besides a quantity of silver. ]J e ' found a half-sovereign and some silver on the prosecutor-

To Mr. Joy : Prisoner was a restaurahtketper in Queen-street, and had never been charged with any offence of this kind before, All his money was in his purse.

Miss Eliza White, barmaid at the Accfc1 land Hotel, deposed that she remembered the parties, snd saw Wolfe, -who paid four shillings for drinks. He had a half-sovereign' in his hand, with some silver—two single shillings. Some of the money fell, but she could not cay whether the half-sovereign was atrong the money that fell.

Mr. Joy said there would be no necessity after Miss White's evidence, to go farther into the case, as it was most conclusive.

The Court considered the evidence insufficient for a conviction, and discharged the prisoner.

Alil/EGED ASSAULT.

John N"ash was charged with committing a violent assault on Anne Vesey, at the North Shore, on the 20th instant. Mr Joy for plaintiff.

Anne Vesey deposed that on Tuesday last she went to defendant's place to ask for a debt which he owed for board and! lodging and washing for twenty - one weeks, amounting to about £8; he said, he could not work and could not pay; after other words, he flew at her and clutchedher by the throat and slapped her three times on the face ; he clutched her so tight that she could not scream; he then knocked her down and kicked her on the tirigh; he eaid he had been dining with Mr Broh&m and Sergeant - Major Pardy jjj that he was a police spy, and that he had received instruction from those officers to thrash her to any extent, so long as he did not kill her.

Defendant stated that prosecutrix came tip to him in an angry mood while he was chopping wood; that she said that she was married to him and where he was there she would be, and his God should be her God. She also had a knife which she brandished in a terrific manner. He did not know what she meant, and he put her out. , Complainant denied the whole of defendant's statement, and as for taking him fora husband—she had one already, which wa>| enough for her. She had come to this country by the Chili, and had a great deal of trouble on the voyage; but, since that, she had done her best to get a respectable living. The women who had persecuted her in conneciion with the Chili case, had since expressed their regret for having wronged her. William Bond, of the North Shore, deposed that he saw defendant ill-use Mrs. Vesey, and that he said that he had given her three or four clouts on the head by order of Mr. Broham; he saw the marks in her throat.

John Bass corroborated: defendant's conduct was very violent. He was twisting her arm as though he would break it. Thomas Vesey, husband, sent his wife for the mon^y due, when she returned with her nose bleeding and her hat torn all to pieces. George Element deposed that Mrs Vesey trid to strangle Nash, vowing she would twist his neck ; she broke into his yard, smashed the windows, and affirmed that she was commissioned to be the "Joan of Arc" of the colony, and she would clear the North Shore of its inhabitants. In short she was a dreadful nuisance. She was the spiritual wife of Nash, and she sctatched his face. Sergeant-Major Pardy denied that he ever told Nash to slap the woman's face. Both parties had been complaining to him, and he advised them to keep out of each other's way and live in peace

Defendant made a long address which amounted to this ; he and the woman hw been great friends, they fell out and parted, when she followed him about, and said if he did not return to her, she would either stick him or give him poison ; she also picked up a great stone, and threatened to satisfy herself as to whether or not, he had any braua. The Court decided that each party should find sureties themselves in £20 each, and two sureties each of £10. , Mrs Vesey here burst into a violent fit ot crying, and said that the man was gre*Jv in her debt, and that she had pawned her things to support him.