MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3064, 13 December 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tms Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor and J. Murison, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKENNESS, John Johnson, for the above offence, was fined Gs, or 24 hours’ imprisonment, with Lard labor. BYE-LAW CASES. A rthur Ford, allowing one horse to wander, was fined Is and coats; William Howell, obstructing the footpath by allowing his express to remain there, 2s Gd ; G;o Smith, driving sixteen unharnessed hordes at the hour of 2 o’clock in the afternoon, 6s and costs ; Soe Tong, neglecting to clean his premises, 20s and costs ; Ah Hin, for a similar offence, was dismissed on payment of costs, the nuisance having been since abated ; yard in the Octagon, was dismissed with a caution ; Thomas Josling, allowing one horse to wander in Hope street, 2s G,l and costs : William Bissland, driving his express waggon across the footpath in York Place, 2-* Cd ; Win. M‘Dermott, driving an eight-horsed waggon on the Main South Road without sufficient reins and no competent person having charge of said waggon, 20s and costs.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Anr f e Hardy. for unlawfully using abusive language in David ami Cumberland- {streets, was sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment with hard labor. ASSAULT. Lancelot Booth v. Charles O’Brien was a charge of assault and ba’tery on the 7th of December last; Mr M‘Keay for the complainant. This case arose out of professional animosity. The pojwplajnaqt, in bis evidence, a nd that O’Brien had called on him and said that Miss Eltham, an actress, had detained some clothes at Palmerston belonging to Mrs Glover and himself, and after they l ad exchanged a few words defendant lifted his whip and struck at him twice ; he lifted his l and to save his face, and was struck across it. By defendant; He had pot brought the case to detain hipi In town, knowpg he was acting ip the.country.—Miss Eitham 'realemhered meeljng defendant and a lady in a carriage. Defendant wished Booth ‘‘Good-day,!’ and said Mrs Glover wished to speak to her, She said she would not lower hcrseli to speak to Mrs Glover, but complainant told her she need not be ashamed to do so, as Mrs Glover was a marr}cd wpmnn. They spoke about some clothes, and defendant s<*id he woiijd knock eomplaiijant’o two eyes ipto ope. He hit him with his whip three times, and if complainant had not lifted his arm it would have struck him across the face. She would sw’ear defendant struck Booth and not the horses. Mrs Robert Glover said she did not gee the assault; nor did she hear defendant any be would knock complainant’s two eyes : Bench said that the evidence into one. - • ->-*.«ai, rf , Oln . proved that an assault was

nutted, though it did not seem to have been a kegious o;ie, Street rows must be put down, and people must control then’ tongues. Fined 40s and costs, being allowed 14 days for'palyment; if not paid within that time, defendant to be imprisoned for 7 days.