RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3556, 16 July 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thursday, July 16. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq,, R.M.) Drunkenness. —James Ashley and James Bond were discharged with a caution; Geo. Smitton, an immigrant by the Cartsburn, for being drunk on the railway pier, was fined ss, with the option of twenty-four hours’ • Wm. Cameron and Caspar Toney each 20s’ or three days A further charge against the last-named prisoner of breaking a window in the shop of Richard Hudson, fleet street, was dibrn.-sned, as the act was an accident and did not therefore come under the rolice Ordinance, His Worship advised Mr Hudson to bring an action against prisoner tor the value of the window in the ordinary

iii‘ , T^ e caße of John Hotson being called, Sub-Inspector Mallard said he would have to ask for a remand in this case for a month, as the prisoner had been found by the police tins morning with his leg broken, and had been sent to the Hospital.—His Worship said this was an illustration of how much an inebriate asylum was required. Hotson had been twice before him during the month-in full, three times. He wag here upon the 9th. He breaks h!S leg and is sent to the hospital, and ha* to be maintained at the public cost. U would have been far better if he (his

Worship) could have sent him to such an asylum for twelve months, till the drink was taken out of him. A remand for seven days was granted.—Ellen Grut was fined 10a, or forty.eight houis’; and a charge of making use of obscene language towards one John Fergusson, was dismivsed, as prosecudid not appear. —Sub-Inspector Mai--Ijm:lt is a pity—a very great pity - that rergusson, the prosecutor, doss not appear. Ihe prisoner was not very drunk, and had xo not been for the other charge the police would not have interfered. It was Fergusson who first drew the attention of the police to her.

Illegally on the Premises.— Robert I Ihngworth, charged on remand with being illegally on the premises of Joseph Daniels, Stuart street, was sentenced to three days’ imprisonment.