RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3733, 9 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, February 9. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M,) Drunkenness. —lsabella Oswiu alias Kidwas lined 20s, with the option of three days imprisonment; David Tuppin L 5, or fourteen days’; James Mahon 40s, with a like alternative. On a further charge of habitual drunkenness, Mahon was discharged with a caution. Obscene Language. —George Davis, for this offence, was lined L2, in default thirty davs’ imprisonment; James Wyuyavd 20s, or a Maintenance. — John D oanoghue was charged on warrant, by Lenj. Britton, master of the InIndustml with disobeying an order made by the C ourt binding him to pay 2s fid per week Wdnfi thC B V,ir rtof Lis s °n, an inmate of the Institution.—l he case was adjourned for a Pn p ble defenda,lt to get the order, i J I Rostitution. - - Elizabeth Atti- . ’ obargod by Constable Beasley with accosting persons in Princes street, was fined L 3: in default one month’s imprisonment. Dawn broker’s License.— Robert M. Mark’s application for a pawnbroker’s license for premises situated in Princes street was granted. Alleged Manslaughter.— John Miller was on remand, with the murder o’f

Catherine Ryder on January 14.—Inspector Mallard prosecuted and Mr Stout defended. Anne Kenny, charwoman and wife of John Kenny, laborer, said that eight o’clock on the morning of the 14th January she had occasion to iro to the house of Mrs Carter in Clark street. She saw Kate Ryder, whose house adjoin’s Carter’s, sitting at her doorstep, and heard her abusing the accused. Noticing Ryder lift a brick, witness turned away and walked down Clark street to Mr Perry’s house at the foot of the street. After witness had been working at^ Perry’s some time she looked up at Mrs Ryder s house, which overlooks the vard, and noticed accused move nearer Ryder’s house. Witness continued at her work, and afterwards heard Miss Eager call out that Ryder was killed. Accused’s appearance was now different to what it was on the morning in question. He was now clean shaved, then he had a little hair on his face. Witness did not see accused from the morning of the 14th ult, till yesterday. He was then in the police station along with several prisoners, and she immediately identified him as the man she saw at Carter s.—Detective Slurry stated that he had been investigating the case with Constable Hendei sou. When last witness was taken into the room at the watch house yesterday for the purpose of identifying accused, she looked line of prisoners, and pointing to Miller said, “ That’s the man who assaulted Ryder. Constable Henderson, who laid the charge, gave similar evidence. —Mr GiLies, clerk to Sparrow and Co., said that accused had been working for the firm as laborer for some months. He was not working at the tune of the alleged occurrence. He was the best working man they had ever had, and was the last person witness would expect to see in the position in which he then was.—Flora Carter said that she was walking along Princes street with Mrs Frederick on the night of February 13, and when near the Octagon they were accosted by accused, who asked them to have a o Vi ei l Vfiu with hilil t0 the Octagon Hotel, and he told them to go home and he would fo low them. They did so, and accused stopped with witness, and Frederick slept on the sofa m the front room. Accused was the first to get out on the following morning, and while lying m bed witness heard Mrs Ryder abusing 5 6r ‘ a i? W i tneS i S got up shortl - v afterwards, and heard Ryder abuse accused. The latter said he would throw her over the bank if she did not keep quiet. There is a bank about sft from wuness s house. Accused caught hold of Ryder, crosserber arms, and threw her on her WL-™ b s e f °i led^ nder the fence over the embankment into Mrs Sutton’s yard. Three other witnesses gave evidence similar to the The , most evidence was that of a httte girl named Lottie Young, who swore most positively that prisoner was the man V + ol1 A/r ß^e c. saw throw Ryder over the fence into Mrs Sutton’s yard. When taken to the police station on Iriday, she said, on seeing It l^ ei^ T likehim > b «t he has got ms whiskers off. Never said, “ It’s not him.” [Left sitting.]