RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 829, 2 January 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before A. C. Strode, Esq., and Jas. Fultom Esq., KM.'s:) DRUNKENNESS. Robert Stark, Arthur Tuson and Robert Mills, each dhatged with this offence, were mulcted in the usual penalty. RESISTING THE POLICE. Robert Mills was charged with inciting a crowd to resist the police while in the execution of their duty. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Sergeant Sutton stated that about five o'clock yesterday, when on duty at the grounds of the Caledonian Society, he was requested by the Directors to remove a man named M'DonneU, who was interfering with the competitors. While doing so, a large crowd in which the prisoner appeared to be the ringleader, gathered round and attempted to rescue the man. The crowd became so disorderly that the police thought it prudent to let the man go. Constables Fair and Bevan corroborated the sergeant's statement. The Bench said that such conduct could not be tolerated* and it was determined to make.an example of people who so grossly misbehaved themselves. The defendant was fined. £lO with the alternative of two.month's imprisonment. RIOTdTJS CONDUCT. Jas. M'DonneU was charged with disorderly behaviour in the grounds of the Caledonian Society yesterday. James Hamilton stated that he was one of the Directors of the Society, and in consequence of the prisoner interfering with the games, he requested the police to remove him. Sergeant Sutton stated that he wag called upon to remove the prisoner from the arena. When doing so, the prisoner called for the people who were near to help him, and in a shoit time some 700 or 800 persons had collected round the police, " and after a scrimmage rushed the prisoner away." Shortly afterwards he was again caught, and brought as far as the chains," when he was rescued a second time. The police then waited until the prisoner left the grounds, when he was seized and placed in a cab, and became so violent that it "was necessary to handcuff him. He received several blows from the prisoner, and also had his hat knocked off repeatedly. Constable Quin and Mr John Hughes in ssting the former witness, received several "blows. The jsrisoner was fined £lO and costs, with, the alternative of two month's ment with hard labor. There wag aloo a charger, of tearing the constable's uniforms, for which: the prisoner was ordered to pay £2 2s and costs. LARCENY. Thomas Shaw (on remand) charged -with, stealing a watch and chain, valued, at £4O, the property of Geo. W. Dickson, was further remanded for seven days. William Towneend (on remand) was charged with stealing a watch and chain valued at £4O, the property of Thomas Martin. The Commissioner of Police informed the Bench that the witnesses had not yet arrived, and he did not think it reqiiisite' to detain the prisoner any longer. The prisoner was discharged.