RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
Moni>.o, Dbckmbkh 1. (Before I. N. Watt, Esq., K.M.) Dkunkknnkss. Nas Herman, for thin offence anil for violence when arrested, jwas fined 20s, or three days’ ; William Hook, 5s or twenty-four hours’. OnsV'KNK IiANUCACK. William Allen, a man of color, was charged by Sergeant Hanlon with committing this offence in St. Andrew street on Saturday evening. -Accused admitted the offence, hut pleaded in justification that the person where he stopped had “put his Sunday clothes out in the rain and shut the door in Ids face—enough to make anybody swear.”—His Worship considered that even if accused had received provocation, he should not have annoyed passers-hy with his expletives, and fined him 4Us, or forty- eight hours’.
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Evening Star, Issue 3364, 1 December 1873, Page 2
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119RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3364, 1 December 1873, Page 2
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