RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2987, 21 January 1881, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

This Day,

(Before Captain Preece, R.M.) SUNDAY TRADING. William Thomas Limbrick waa charged with keeping his licensed house open for business on Sunday, tbe 16th instant. Defendant pleaded guilty. Sergeant O'M alley stated that the police did not wish to press for a heavy penalty, as defendant had only supplied a regular customer with dinner beer. His Worship inflicted tbe smallest penalty allowed under the Act, £2 and costs. FDHIODS RIDING. John Halloran and Martin Burke were charged with furiously ridinj? through Hastings-street on the 16th instant. Defendants pleaded guilty. His Worship inflicted a fine of 101 each and costs. BUHETIES OF THE PEACE. Thomas Nelson Cass was charged with threatening George Pritchard at Farndon on the 14th instant, and applying that he be bound over to keep tbe peace. Mr Lee appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. George Pritchard, railway station master at Farndon, stated that defendant had been lately employed as railway porter at Farndon, and had been dismissed by the general manager. Defendant taxed complainant with being the cause. On Thursday last he heard two stones drop near him, and looking round saw defendant. Witness taxed him with it, but he denied it, saying, " Mind, you don't have something besides a stone at you. I have not done with you yet. I will do for you. If lam not mistaken you will be a corpse soon, and I will be over again before the night is out." Cross-examined by Mr Lee : He wai afraid that defendant would do him some injury, or to his. He struck him the same night that the conversation took place. He had no witness to prove the assault. Defendant said he would make complainant a corpse soon. He had not spoken to him for three weeks. No one wac put in defendant's place at the station while he was ill; it was after his recovery that he was dismissed. Sarah Pritchard, wife of complainant, stated that, on the night of the 14th instant, she was called out of the house by her husband, and heard the words used by the defendant threatening her husband's life. The defendant, sworn, stated that, on the night in question, complainant came over from his house to the middle of the road, and said, " Cass, you wretch, did you throw that stone;" and afterwards, "I will have you out of Farndon or in prison before long." He did not use the words imputed to him by complainant at all. He had caught him eavesdropping shortly before tbis at his house, and told him if caught there again he would kick him. His Worship ordered tbe defendant to be bound over to keep the peace for three months in one surety of £25. The Court then rose.