RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3741, 18 February 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tbuesday, February 18 (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M., and E. MGlashan, Esq., J.P.) Drunkenness.—George Kirkhouse was fined 10s, or forty-eight hours’. 1 heft.— .Jane Kelysham was charged with stealing two herrings value 2d, the property of Andrew Melville, fishmonger.—Robert Smith deposed to seeing accused take the herrings from a box at Melville’s shop door: and Constable Mmr proved finding them in accused’s pocket.- three previous convictions for larceny and several for vagrancy were proved against accused, and she was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, with hard labor. — Jeremiah Doing was charged with refusing to contribute to the support of his daughter, Mary Dohig, at present an inmate of the Industrial School—Mr A. Bathgate, for defendant, said the latter was not in a position to giro anything, as he had several other children and had not lately been at work continuously.—The case was adjourned, to Mr Bricton to inquire into the reliability of these statements. Assault. -Marion Clark was charged by her husband, William Clark, with assaulting him. There was also a cross summons by the wife against the husband for an assault on the same day.—Mr Stout appeared for William Clark; Mr H. Howorth for Marion Clark.—Mr Stout stated that Mrs Clark was in the habit of drinking, at which times she would conduct heru j a way, assaulting her husband m .such a manner as to cause him to believe his life in danger at her hands. The assault now complained of was committed with an axe. Mr Clark now wished to ha v e her bound over to £5 e P j® peace, and to live separate from her. He had made over certain property to her, and would also contribute to her support as much as possible. Mr Howorth said the charge was a trumpery one, and that the statements of complainant s counsel were highly colored.—His VVorship thought some, mutual arrangement should be come to between the husband and wife, and the case was adjourned for a week to admit of such being possibly arrived! at. (Before His Worship the Mayor and J. M. Ritchie, Esq., J.P.) Assault. Johanna Dohig v. Chas. Brown—a trivial charge of assault—was dismissed.— James Kennedy was charged with assaulting Jane Monson on February 15. Complainant, a frequent attendant at the Court, appeared with a very imposing pair of black eyes and a highly disfigured face. She said that defendant had threatened to take her life, and on the day in question _ struck her across the head with a bottle. Witness conducted herself in a very disorderly manner (for which she was rebuked by the Bench), and said that the best evidence she ™ ®? er was the appearance she presented. —lhe Bench, without calling on defendant, dismissed the case.—Same v. CocHvaiie was adjourned for a week. —Julia Gardiner was then charged with assaulting Jane Monson on the stn insfc. - Complainant stated that the alleged assault occurred on the Ist inst., and the case was dismissed. Complainant thereupon became very demonstrative, and complaining that she had been reported as a “ low woman, aifd threatening to make the reporters “smart,” she had to bo removed in custody.