RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3490, 30 April 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Thursday, April 30. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., K.M.) Drunkenness. —Catherine M‘Pberaon and Mary Anne Tuppin were each dismbsed with a caution ; John Robertson was fined ss, or 48 hours’ imprisonment. D vid Tuppin aud James Kiley each 40a or fourteen days. Thomas Hughes pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk while in charge of a horse and cabin Princes street at 210 this morning, and was* fined 20s or 48 hours’.Mr Sb-Inspector Mallard asked to be allowed to bring the fact under the notice of the Inspector of Cabs, that the defendant was drunk whilst in charge of a cab, so that the City Council might know it. He was driving about at a furious rate that morning. —His Worship ordered tjiat the case be re . ported, so that it might be brought under the < ouncil’s notice. Begging in a Public Place.—William yishart, charged, on thfe information of ConBttoWfe Ycfcntya wjth in JPrindels

street, contrary to the Vagrancy Act, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor.

Indecent Language. —Jane Glass, who appeared in Court m a state of drunkenness, was charged with making use of indecent language in Great King street on the 9th inst. His Worship : Jane Glass, r-Defen-dant : That’s me, now. Yes, your Worship, I am here.. His Worship: I see you are drunk. That’s a deliberate contempt of Court. (Defendant: lam sober.) I commit }ou to gaol for twenty-four bourse, and you will be brought up on this charge tomorrow when you aie sober. —The defendant stoutly refused to leave the Court, saying, “ I will speak to your Worship ; for what am Itogo to gaol?” She was then forcibly removod by two constables, and as she lefc the Court, “let out” with her closed fist at one of them. Ihe Pig Nu;sancb —A charge against William Allen, o keeping pigs within the City boundary, was dismissed with a caution. Selling Unwholesome Meat. —David Bethune, butcher, was charged on the information of John Goodman, Inspector of Markets, with offering for sale unwholesome food in the market —lnspector Goodman said he seized 301bs of putrid meat exposed for sale by defendant on Saturday night last, and took it to the Mayor, who ordered it to be examined. Witness got two but-chers—-Messrs Stohr and Parsons—to examine it; after which he took it back to the Mayor, who ordered it to be sent to the Manure Depot.—A Mercer, J.P., and Mayor, said last witness took some meat to him and complained that it was unwholeHe did not feel justified in condemning the meat, and therefore ordered an inspection. The pork in question was unfit for. food. The meat was again brought .to him, and as he could, not endure the smell, he ordered it to be destroyed.—To Mr A. Bathgate (defendant’s counsel): Were he to serve any of his customers with such bacon as that produced, he would expect to have it returned. Do you. recollect on one occasion when you were a judge of hams and bacon at an exhibition, awarding a prize to some meat which afterwards turned out to be tainted ?—Witness said he did not remember having done se He might have done so, however, as the outside of the meat was often deceptive.—K vidence as to the result of the examination was given by *tohr, who stated that he should not like to sell the meat.— Mr Bathgate : Do you know of persons who like their mutton well hung and “ high ” Stohr said he had heard of such a case in Victoria. (Laughter).—Parsons said he considered the outside of the meat good, but the inside bad. He did not consider tainted meat unwholesome or unfit for human food. —Defendant’s witnesses admitted that the meat was tainted, but not unwholesome. His Worship considered there had been a contravention of the Act, but it was not an aggravated case, and he fined defendant in the mitigated penalty of 20s and costs. The prosecutor’s request that the costs should cover the expense of removing the meat was refused.