RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Issue 45, 31 March 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Yesterday. (Before 0. D. R. Ward, Esq., R.M.) Caleb Cull, hotel keeper, charged Thomas Hanley with having assaulted his servant, William Wight. Mr. Cull stated — I am an hotel keeper, and live in Wellington. Last Saturday night the prisoner slept in my house. On that night he quarreled with a servant of mine, named William Wight. Next morning, when lie came down stairs, he began quarrelling with him again, and I went to stop them. I found blood flowing all over the place ; they were both scrambling and kicking together. After a little time I stopped them. Prisoner then ran to the front door and knocked out a pane of glass, and cooeyed. Th/n I opened the door and put him outside, and went back to Wight. He was bleeding very much from a wound on the head. 1 examined the wound; it was a clean cut. It was nearly half an hour before I could stop the bleeding. I did not send for a doctor. Examined by the prisoner : You did net call to me to part you at first. You did when you found the man was too strong for you. I heard you tell Wight that he was not a man, but a black nigger. You shoved your hand through a pane of glass. William Wight, on being sworn, said : I am a servant of Mr. Cull's. I know the prisoner. He was at our house on Saturday night last. I had to put him out of the skittle alley for misbehaviour. He slept in the house that night. When he came down next morning, I said to him, you had a great game last night. He asked what was that game. I said, you tore my shirt last night. He said it was a — — . I said 1 would give him satisfaction if he called it a . Then he struck at me, and cut my head with a knife. He was scraping the mud of his boots with the knife, and then he closed with me, and said, its no use hitting you over the head ; I'll boot you. He then kicked me on the shins with his boots. I only had stockings

on at the time. Then he left me in the kitchen and went out and cooeyed. Mr. Cull was present at the last part of the row. The cut on my head bled very much. By the prisoner : Mr. Cull was not there when the row commenced. No one was there except the prisoner and myself. The magistrate remanded the prisoner until next day, for further evidence. TO-DAY. Thomas Hanley was again placed in the dock. i Neil Cook, on being sworn, stated jI am cook to Mr. Caleb Crtl. On Sunday morning last I met the prisoner, who was staying in the house, when lie came from Tiis bedroom in the morning. I saw him go into the room where the boots are usually brushed, lie was cleaniug his boots when I went outside. He and another man, a servant of Mr. Cull's, were together when I went out. They were talking, but I took no notice of what they said. I went out to sweep the backyard. When I came in I thought I heard a noise in the next room. I went in, and they were rolling one another on the floor. I parted them, and said that if they wanted to fight they must go outside. They would not keep apart, and made at one another again when I left them. I saw the prisoner before with a knife scraping his boots, but I saw no knife, at the time they were fighting. I saw that one of them was bleeding when they were on the floor, but I could not say which one it was. The evidence being concluded, the prisoner was fully committed for trial. Bail was taken in his own recognisances of £100, and two sureties of £50 each. James Howard sued John Tully for a debt of £1. Judgment for amount and costs. Three men were brought up, charged with being drunk. Two' were fined 5s each, or in default, committed to prison for twentyfour hours. The other, 10s, or, in default, committed for forty-eight hours.