RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3500, 12 May 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, May 12. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.)

Drunkenness. George Harrison was fined ss, with the option of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.

Assaults.-—Jane Glass was charged, on the information of James M‘Pherson, with assaulting and threatening him, and he prayed that she might be bound over to keep the peace, as he was afraid she would do him bodily harm. —Complainant said he was a laborer,, living in Cumberland street. On the 29th A pril .Glass was in his house. She struck him across the eyes with a vegetable dish, and afterwards struck him with a ginbottle over the head, without provocation. «he also threatened to run a knife through him if he touched her. In consequence of the wounds he was laid up for a week. He had to go to the hospital.— Mary M'Pherson gave corroborative evidence, the said that she would remember the 29th April for a very long whiles—to time immemorial. Prisoner on that day threw two or three plates, a vegetable dish, and a gin-bottle at her husband.— Prisoner : Did 5 ou say your husband? Will you swear ou your oath that you are married ?—Witness ; I will -Prisoner: Then you lie.—(Laughter). 1-This was the case.—Prisoner made a long defence, ohe said that complainant had been living on prostitutes for live weeks. He had been put from his work on account of harboring thern m his house. Witness then informed the Bench how complainant had eluded the police when they were looking after one Holmes > b y booking her as Mrs ~ I herson, and sending her away by coach ibhe asked his Worship to look at the characters of the persons before him, and to sav——His Worship : Unfortunately for you l am acquainted with your character.— Prisoner: Leave that alone. You are now sitting to determine this charge of assault, as they call it.—Bis Worship promised to consider the case by itself. It was an unprovoked assault, committed on a man in his own house. Prisoner would be sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labor >eorge .Sheriff was charged on the information of a little boy named Wadsworth with assaulting him on the sth inst.—Defendant admitted having struck the lad on the head, lli was Un<^er extreme provocation. Mr Johnston, who appeared for complainant, m stating the case, said that the lad, who was only fourteen years aid, was in the mployment of Mr Raynor, a butcher, at tvaikorai. Defendant was also a butcher—tu kict, they were rival butchers. Raynor 1 * atl been in, the locality for ten months,

sheriff was an older resident. On the Sunday previous to the day in question defendant’s boy was striking a younger lad named Mercer, whereupon complainant interfered and separated them. On the tuesday defendant said to complainant that he had been striking his son, the latter replying that ha had only threatened to do so to protect himself. Defendant thereupon struck complain • aut on the ear, and stunned him, causing him to fall against a building close by. His ear still bore marks of ttie fall,' which must consequently have been very violent. The defence was that complainant, although warned not to do so, struck defendant’s son, and refused to complain of the latter’s conduct to his father, but punished him himself. —Defendant was fined 20s and costs. Abusive Language. —Mary Anne Gibbs was charged on the information of her hus band with using insulting languge to him.— Mr Joyce appeared for complainant.—The case was adjourned till to-morrow to enable defendant to call any necessary witnesses. Maintenance. Alexander Weir was summoned by Benjamin Britton, master of the Utago Industrial School, to show cause why he should not contribute a weekly sum to the support of his daughter, an inmate of that institution.—-Mrs Weir appeared, and said that her husband was bedridden with rheumatism.—Mr Britton said that he called on Weir a short time ago, and questioned him as to his means, when he said that he was a carpenter, ahd had plenty of work. As soon as witness discovered himself by informing A'eir who he was, he f igned illness, aud said he was sick—(Laughter.) He then promised to come to an arrangement and pay 7s 6d a week. This he had neglected to do, aud witness had therefore issued the summons.—The case was adjourned for a month to enable a settlement to be come to If defendant still refused to contribute, the case at the lapse of that time to be brought on again. Trumpery Case —ln Sullivan v. Lockwood, a charge of assault, defendant was fined 5s and costs.