CROMWELL R.M.s COURT.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 10, 12 January 1870, Page 4

CROMWELL R.M.s COURT.

■xstrM - . Iterr .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1870?*-' -J) (Before ViMCSWT Pykis, Esq., K.M.) .^M SLY PROP BELLIXO. ' Jano Wilson was charged by Sergeant Cassels with having exposed for sale, on the 21st December, a quantity of spirituous liquors and ale, she not being duly licensed in that behalf. • Mr Inspector Dalgleish stated that the shanty kept by the defendant was the most disorderly in the district. Not long ago she was brought up on a similar charge, but unfortunately it was not clearly proved. It was a case calling for strict measures.

Sergeaut Cassels, sworn, deposed that on the. .morning of Tuesday, the 21st December, he en-j tpnkl defendant's house, and found five men bai tjKe spree, two of whom were subsequently' brought up and fined for being drunk. On ex-j animation, he found a case of ale and a bottle of, brandy, and another case behind the counter, which had been emptied. He asked her ,how she came to have so much liquor on the premises and she said she thought she could sell ale as she had a business license. I seized some bottles of ale and a bottle of brandy, which I produce. Defendant said she did not sell the liquor. She had got it in for Christmas, and she was i " shouting " for some friends of her husband.' The men had come to her place from Mrs I&s's, and were drunk when they arrived. H His Worship said she had escaped on a fdrmerf occasion by the " skin of her teeth." Thistimej she had been caught—the liquor had clearly beeir , exjjpsed for sale, and that was all that was aecesslary to. procure a conviction. He would fine 'her'S 10, and if she came before him again, he s.would'inflict a much heavier penalty. The fiae was paid. ■*■ f| i C.VXTEIUNO ACROSS CROMWELL Francis Foote was charged by Sergeant'Cassels with riding across Cromwell Bridge at tfthej^ l than a walking pace. • ' Mr Brough, for Foote, pleaded guilty, but urged in extenuation of the offence that defendant's horse had strayed over the bridge, and he fed gone over with another horse to turn it back,! He thought under these circumstances no fin* shoald be inflicted. | ~ Sergeant Cassel3 deposed to having seen defendant cantering over the bridge. Some per; sons were about to run a race on the bridge *om<l time before, and he warned them not to do- bo 1! Foote was among them, and he said ho wdSftfj do it if he could run. ~ • M Robert Hastings, foreman of roads, gave coi*i .rohorative evidence. - - •...... I*l j -. ! The Bench said there wa3 danger in pwopP riding across the bridge at a qmckpaee, anrlSh"practice .ruust be'ahecked.. Fined.Bb and coats. l ' j i _>4 ; -s& '*' —— '' \' \ -*'* ;• j r- sit^gAt;"January jo, . . •• Rot "f'Phee, 'alias Angus M'Phee, was charge'cl'with being drunk and disorderly in the public streets on Saturday evening, fl previous conviction for the same offence within the last j munth having been proved by Sergeant Cassels, ' the delinquent was fined L.2 or seven days' i imprisonment.