RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3626, 6 October 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, October 6. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.)

JjI^UNKENNESS.—WaIter Clarke, William Roberts, and Charles Williams were let off" with cautions. Henry * Vesey was fined 20a, or three days, andAnnieM’Namara 40a, or ■fourteen days; - -I ’■ t. s■ V ■< - c , Destruction os* Property. Annie Coatefs Was ‘charged by Eliza Baily with smashing'fdhr panes of glass in the house hf . the latter. '• Mr appeared fee. 'cd&plaittaaV ; who- that she' lived' in Cambria Place, and kept boarders. ■ Acrjuftdd ; was one of taese boarders, and had'] often dome about the house. 1 At the tinke now complained of accused came into J the back wanted to get: some money from one ...of. the boarders, named Campbell, and on-being told to go away, she broke the windows,. —Td hocused : T did apt hit you ever the. head with a rail, as I did . not go outside the hohsb.—Ellen Morrison, gave corroborative evidence.—Accused was fined 20s, or six days, and to pay the damage bound over to keep -the peace f*r thirty days, she having been in the habit of threatening to “do for” complainant, and burn down her house—Coraplaiuant said that she could only acceunt for the cond act of accused by supposing she was jealous . about Mr Campbell William Gunnery was. then charged with breaking a pane of glass," at 10s, in the house of Thomas Pavla rich. Complainant said accused Was a loafer nicknamed Te Kooti, and was in the habit of hanging about witness’s hotel begging monpy gfrpm the hoarders instead of working for his living. Last night there was . a meeting of the Piggery Company, qad accused was making a great, disturbance. About 12 o’clock he askei for si bed, uponv which complainant shoved him out, and then., abused rushed at the door and broke the #pdo\y in it! Hp had offered to pay witness for the bed, but he refused to give one to a pickpocket. Accused: Why do you call me ( a pickpocket ? Did you ever, see me pick a pocket T—N o; Pd scop - you. Prisoner pleaded that the breakage was unintentional, being done in the scuffle.—His Worship remarked that it was evident Mr Pavletich did not require accused’s custom, so the latter had better keep away. The case would be dismissed.

A Disorderly House.— lsabella Lyle was charged on remand with',being the occupier of a house frequented' by theives and prostisfeutfls.—rMr Cook defended.—The case was partly heard some days ago and uqw further evidence was given -~rHis Worship said defendant had admitted to the police that she was Wilkes’s tenant, hut she has deuied this and said Jane M'Leod was the occupier. However, he had told a different tale on a previous occasion, and his evidence was flatly contradicted by Jane M‘Leod and another witness. It was beyond a doubt that Wilkes had in the witness-box told a distinct and deliberate lie, and that the house was of the character described, and was oocupi dby defendant. Lyle would be imprisoned for thirty day-, for being an idle and disorderly person.—Sub-Inspector Mallard qsked if his Worship, would grant a warrant to cause Wilkes tp be arrested on a charge of perjury, which wss granted. Wilkes, who was ih the body of the Courtj immediately decamped, but was followed and brought back by the police.— Mr Co -k then asked that the man might be admitted to bail, as the information might not be ready till late in the day.—His Worship admitted Wilkes to bail, himself in LSO and two sureties in LlO each, the charge to be heard to-morrow in order that if committed for trial the case may come before the present session of the Supreme Court. Fraud.— Charles Brodie Cooper was charged with obtaining from Henry Walker the sum of L2 Ss, with intent to defraud.— Prosecutor did not appear, and Sub-Inspec-tor Mallard asked that thro* other charges of a similar natqre against the accused might be gone on with, although the informations had not been laid.—Accused objected, and the charges were adjourned till Thursday next. '

In the Carnegie suit, in which a stun pf. LIO,OOO is claimed by a divorced wife from her late husband, on the ground of its having been her independent property, the Lord Justice confirmed the decision of Vice - Chanoellbr Hall, This condemned Admiral Carnegie to restore the money with interest at 4 per cent., and to pay all the costs of the suit. For refusing to carry a portmanteau from his cab into the lobby of a house at the request of his fare, an Edinburgh cabman has been fined' 10s. The magistrate,* i in! ‘passing sentence, stated that it was the duty of cabmen to be civil to the public, and* they were required to carry into houses such articles of luggage as passengers had with them when the hire was made. ' L ‘