RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3738, 15 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, February 15. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.MQ Arthur Stewart, Eugene de Berg, and' Ben™-’ mm Acwman were each lined "m ruHWi? option ef forty-eight hours’ Christiani lonsen 40s, or fourteen days’; Ellen Sullivan 10s, or three days’. J Obscene Language. —-Mary Ward, for urine obscene la-guage on the 13th instant within the hearing of persons passing in Princes street was fined ss, m default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Breach or the Peace. —Wm Caldwell charged with tins offence, was fined 10s, in default forty-eight imprisonment Assault. —William Bartley was charged, on remand, with assaulting the infant of tiwy M Laughhn.—The accused had been arrested on a complaint being made to the police that he hau lam on the child and caused its dea th The (mroner s inquest was held, and the verdict was an open ono-the jury being unable to assign any cause of death.-Under these cireum stances his Worship allowed the charge to withdrawn. ® iiiEFT.—Ttannah Scott was charged, on remand, with stealing one merino dress of the value oi Ij4 10s, the property of William HaVL The charge had been adjourned to enable accused to bring witnesses to character.—After these had been heard, his Worship said he looked upon accused as accessory to the theft. Her son had stolen the dress and given it to her. Had he found it, as was stated by the defence, she should have given it to the police till the owner was found, and not have devoted it to her own use.—Accused was discharged with a caution. fa CIVIL ■ CASES. •Xt fl', enfe was « iven for plaintiffs by default m the following cases Ziele v. Clark, L342i Id on a, dishonored acceptance ; Livingstone v. Matthew Hay, L 3 10s 6d, for Crown -grant tees ; Sutherland v. Irvine, and Blair v. Stock the amount did not transpire in either case. Birchell v. Wright.-Claim, L2 10s for board and lodgings.—This was a fraud summons.—His Worship ordered defendant to pay the money forthwith, or to go to gaol for sixty days. ° J