RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3728, 3 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

WE ON fiSDAY. FeBRUA HY 3. (Before T. A. Mansion!, Esq., R.M.) inP ,U -fi Kl '^ ?KSS, T' Mal P , '' ::t Yo 'ing was fined J-Us, with the option of forty-eight hours’ impnsonment; John A ibuckle, not appearinghad Ins bail forfeited ; Robert Drummond ;is or twenty-four hours’. ' ’ Assaulting a Constable. -Thomas Fogarty was charged with assaulting Constable Hart?f& ln Prmces street, on the 2Gth ult.—Mr * >p I the ncf;Us ed —Constable Hartnett said that ho arrested prisoner in Pnnees street, and tripped him, keeping him down for five minutes. When they-got up, witness asked prisoner to go quietly and not to xesist. Prisoner then clutched him by the throat and tripped him. Witness fell on the x/rii/r 0 - , 'h?ad on to the footpath abutting Mr Muirs shop.—Thomas Muir £:ivc corrobolative evidence.^ —Mr M'Kcay had no reason to itnpugntke evidence adduced by the prosecution. He contended that his client, having been fined for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, could not be punished on the present charge, which was \ cally the same offence as that already disposed of. —His Worship considered

that than ware two distinct and separate offences.—-Mr M‘K«ay askad that a small fine should be inflicted, prisoner having been in gaol for a week.—lnspector Mallard asked that the police should be protected.—His Worship did not think it a charge in which a fine should be inflicted. The prisoner had attempted to evade justice, and he would be sent to prison for four weeks. A further charge of habitual drunkenness was withdrawn at the suggestion of the Bench.

IxdEcent Assault. —George Johnson, an elderly man, apparently over fifty years of age, charged, on the information of ConWD T- with carnally assaulting Jessie M Keilar, his stepdaughter, nine years of age, on or about October 8, 1873.-Mr M‘Keay, who aeieuded, asked for a remand till next day. which was granted.—lnspector Mallard opposed any application for bail, saying that though not prepared to state the reasons in open Court h# would be willing to acquaint his Worship with them privately.—His Worship, on bail being pressed tor, fixed it on prisoner’s own :«coginn <d au d two substantial sureties t LIOO each.—Mr M‘Keay : That is equivalent o saying that there shall be no bail at -all.— is Worship; I intended it as such.—Leave °-r a , n 1 police to oppose the boudsi u they did not consider them substantial.

vn,. . irm. C,TIL CABBB - V 1 E ““ rsoa - - This WHS a fraud BUIHf f aUwi ou to show cause why he bad not satisfied a judgment for LI 14s, given against him some mouths back. Defeuda?V.S ord I f ed t° P a y 8s per week, lo l i iir 'ti, “y n t on -*—Olaim L 4 for board aud Povntoii souL’lit t' aS a CIOSS actioß » »» which f oyntc n sought to recover certain goods his pioperty, illegally detained by Porter ’ Mr IWton I)P lntL f °f - P ° f rter u ; Aj f r E - Cook for S for* f lai ?! or h .°' vd ’ judgment was L3> Coßts - The cro «