RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 180, 22 April 1873, Page 5

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

— ■ Thursday, April 17, 1873. (Before W. Lawrence Simpson, Esq., R. J/. j A ms IROERLY HOUSE. Jane Wilson was charged, on the information of Sergeant Cassels, with having on the night of Sunday, 13th inst, allowed disorderly conduct ill her accommodation-house at Carrickton. Defendant pleaded guilty, and said that Mrs Goss and others set her at defiance, and she could not prevent the disorderly conduct complained of. She got a pair of black eyes in attempting to eject Mrs Goss. The Sergeant sai 1 that .Mrs Wilson and Mrs G.iss were both drunk, and the latter half naked, at the time he visited the place. Mrs Wilson kept an accommodation-house, but her chief means of subsistence were sly grog selling and prostitution. Defendant had been thrice previously convicted—once for vagrancy, once for exposing liquors, and once for selling grog. Fine I £5, or one month’s imprisonment. The penalty, together with 11s. 61. costs and 18s. 6d. witness’s expenses, was immediately paid. THE VmCHER case. The adjourned hearing of the case, Rendall ». Sbanly, was proceeded with. The Magistrate, after hearing some further evidence, gave judo, ment for the plaintiff in the amount claimed—£6 Is.—together with 9s. costs of Court and 21s. solicitor’s fee. Friday, April 18. (Before M. Freer, Esq., J.P.. Mayor; and J . B Lake, Es [., J P.) Alexander M'Loughlin was fined 10s. for being drunk on the previous day. The same, for assaul.iug and resisting the police in the execution of their dutv, was fined £5, with the option of a mnnt.li in Clyde Gaol. Samuel Brooks, for drunkenness, was lined 20s.