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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, December S. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness. —Thomas Cleary was discharged with a caution ; Charles Reilly, lined 20.-, with the opt on of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment ; Jane KLelysham, an old offender, L‘i, or one month. The last-named pris mer was further charged with destroying one blanket and a pann kin in the cell in which she was placed in the lock-up. She was lined L 5 or one month’s imprisonm mt, tee sentence to take effect after the expiry of the former. Theft.— Cornelius Carey was charged with •havii g, on the previous day, stolen from the premi-es of Messrs Finlay and Co. one silver watch and chain, of the value of LB, the property of David Gulland.—Piosecutor’ who was employed at the Stuart street Jetty, took oft hj s vest containing a watch and chain, and put it down. Accused was seen loitering about, and his manner having aroused suspicion, prosecutor was induced to : examine his vest, and found his wa‘ch gone. He then went in purs dt of accused, and on overtaking him he (the latiorj denied the theft, but afterwards gave the watch up. Information was then given to the police, and Detective Bain arrested the accu ed in the rince of Wahs o el. When charged with the offence he d nied all knowledge of the matter, and also denied having been in Stuart street ; hut while on his way to the lock up remarked that he did not think the prosecutor would have told, the police after having got his watch back again.—Accused was committed for trial. Demanded (.haroe— William Andrew Jarvey was charged, on remand, with having, at Port Molyueux, sto ; en two live, and three one pound notes, and a silver watch, the property of Richard Allan. —Hub-Inspec-tor Mallard explained that he had been unable to obtain the evidence that he expected, which avas nece sary for the completion oi the case. He would therefore ask to be allowed to withdraw the case with outpro judice,—Accused was ace -rdingly discharged, his Worship telling him that if the wanting eviden e was obtained, he wa liable to be again arrested on the sauu charge. Females’ Quarrels. — Lamb v. Murphy wa* amusing charge of assault. Complainant syocre positively that defendant hail stoned her, ana Ihe latter was equally firm in her opinion that she was the aggrieved party, complainant having spat at and “spited” her,—Defendant waa bound over to keep the peace for six mouths in one surety of [.■>■ Assault. —Fred. J. Muir avas charged by Dr. Crawford with assaulting and beating him on December 1. Mr G. Cook appeared' fir dt l ndant.—- Complainant s id that he| was with a Mr 'haw, walking along Princes ; street, near the shop of Mr Hislop, the watchmaker, at midnight on December 1, when some one came behind him and, striking him on the back of the head, knocked him down insensible. The witness said the defendant admitted striking him, but that he had mistaken him for another pers u. He ■ onsidered it a mean and cowardly assault.—James Shaw, V.S., sai l ho did not believe comp ainanb was struck by a pm son’s fist, but with something f-om the cottee Dali having he<n thrown at him. Witness would no*, go solar as to say that comp lain an o was insensible : he was merely annoyed.—The defence was that the complainant’s story was a mere lidiya, defendant never having struck him —' 'unstable ■ Dick was pi eseut in Prine s street on the night in question, win n complainant charga d delemiaut with as.uniting him. Complainant was under the inllueiicc of liq.or, his language being rather mixed. Defendant denial having ptrnelf. anyone.—Con. Buckingham d'as in Princes' nircet, with defendant, on December 1. Hearing a cry of police they went up to complainant, Complainant

neither fell nor was knocked down ■Defendant never struck the complainant nor threw anything at him. Had he done so witness must have seen him.—Complainant: When I was going to give ton in charge—coward as you are—(iaughter) - did not defendant come forward and say that it was “him chat” struck me?— Witness (emphatically) : No ; he never uttered such words.—John KoTy, fishmonger, was at the coffee stall on the night iu question, when complainant, who was the worse for liquor—indeed he might virtually say he was tipsy—called out “ police ” lustily. When the policeman came up, defendant requested him to take the doctor iu charge, as he was insulting him, and for being drunk. -John H. Jewitt, fishmonger, said that complainant had told him that he was assaulted by Muir in Stuart street, when he was on his way to a patient in Cumberland street—-he evidence being conflicting, his Worship dismissed the case. In doing so. h ; s Worship said that bad lie found defend an : legally guilty bo would have bad no hesitation in sending him to gaol he would not have accepted a fine. If young me,a in offices—young men of icreation—chose to -kmlk about the streets at that time of night, when they oug it ro be somewhere else if doing 1 heir duty to those connected with them -if they chose to act in that wrong way—if proved guilty, be would, without doubt, "make no dis tiuctinn between them and any other Tv r.snns ; for if a fine were no punishment he must send them to gml. Mo might state that he had no moral doubt whatever in his own mind that the blow was struck by defendant, if be was t; believe anything. He believed that de endant wag gudfy of that misconduct, but moral doubt was not snffi cient iu that respect ; he must have undeniable legal proof. Me- would like defendant and other young men of education to know that he knew from information that they were in the habit of parading the streets at late hours at night, and if any p-r----son pursued such misconduct as that it must lead to his ulFm.afce destruction. Young men were apt to make this mistake—to thmk t iat they were not seen go about at night, but there they were wrong. In a small community like this no young man in a good, social posifcio i could parade the streets at uighb unnoticed ; conduct of that s >rt could not fail in the end to make a difference. He would recommend all such young men to try and stop a ca’ccr which mu t, if they were employed in places of trust, lead to Hieir ultimate dismissal. The charge would be dismhsed w th a very strong admonition.

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Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 2

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3680, 8 December 1874, Page 2

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