RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Issue 198, 26 September 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Dat. (Before C. D. R. Ward, Esq.,R.M.,andCapt. Nookes, J.P.) Thomas Smith was charged with being drunk, and fined 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment. John Spry was brought up on remand, charged with stealing from a dwelling, but no further evidence having been produced against him he was dismissed. Adiri Cockroft v. John Rose ; claim of £12 6s 6d for rent of house for one week ending the Bth of September, and fixtures removed without plaintiff's authority. — Plaintiff stated fchaj; defendant had destroyed the locks on the doors, removed a counter, broken a skylight, and in other ways damaged his property. Defendant denied his liability, and stated that the counter was removed by plaintiffs ewn carpenters, that when he took possession of the house there was not a sound lock on the doors, and that the carpenters had possession of the house during the week for which rent vras claimed. Judgment for 12s 6d. Captain A. A. G. Pillmer was charged by Matilda Rush with violently assaulting her on the afternoon of Friday last. Prosecutrlx stated that on the evening of the 22nd mat., while driving home a turkey,

Captain Pilmer came up, caught her by tlfiifc hair, and struck her in the neck ; he th£j||| struck her to the ground, stating at the tiB»<HI that he would kill both her and the turkey. When she got up she was bleeding very much at the mouth. She screamed out, and her mother came to her assistance, and defendant 1 knocked her down also. She never saw deI fendant before to know him. Annie Carter, examined, stated that on Saturday last she saw defendant seize Mrs. Rush by the neck and hair, and throw her to I the ground, and heard him say he would murder both her and her turkey. Mrs. Rush's mouth was bleeding much at the time. ' Nathaniel Jennis said that on the evening in question he saw defendant catch Mrs. Rush unawares by the neck and hair, and strike her to the ground while she was driving home her turkey. - Matilda Service and Elizabeth Minifie were examined, and corroborated the evidence of previous witnesses. Defendant's counsel said that Mrs. Rush's turkey had frequently attacked defendant's child, and that defendant had attempted to destroy the turkey when on his own pre» mises. Thomas Watson stated that he was present on Friday evening, when Mrs. Ruih waa driving the turkey home. He saw her run against Mr. Pilmer, but did not see him strike Mrs Rush or her mother. The defendant was fined 40s, and bound over in his own recognisance of JESO to keep the peace for six months. Anthony A. G-. Pilmer charged Annie and Pamela Carter with assaulting him on Friday last. Anthony A. G. Pilmer stated that on Friday afternoon while clearing the right-of-way leading to his house, Annie Carter came to him and pushed against him, and said " if you attempt to touch that tree I will kill you." Mrs. Carter then came out and struck him. Both of them used very bad and violent language. He did make some remark about Annie Carter's dress. Thomas Watson said that he was present on Friday when Mr, Pilraer was cutting the tree down and clearing the rights-way, Annie Carter was present-also ; her mother got up into the tree and would not lee him cut it down, He did not see prosecutor strike defendant. < Annie Garter said that; on Friday last she opposed Mr. Pilnier'e cutting down the tree by placing herself between the tree and Mr. Pilmer. Mr. Pilmer then made some nasty remarks about her dress and 'called her an improper name. He then attempted to strike her brother, and she ran between them, when he charged her with running away from her parents and leading an irregular life. Their Worships thought that there was provocation on both sides, and that both were to blame, and having bound over the prosecutor to keep the peace they would order that the defendants Annie and Pamela Carter be bound over in their own recognisance in the Bum of £50 each, to keep the peace for aix months.