RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.
Friday, April 9. (Before T. A. Mansford, Esq., R.M., and Dr Drysdale, J.P.) Drunkenness.— Garratt Gough, and Mary, his wife, were charged with being drunk on the Port Chalmers railway line yesterday afternoon. From the evidence of Mr Cocksedge, the guard in charge of the 2.30 p.m. down train, it appeared that when turning the curve close to Wales’s quarry, the prisoners were discovered sitting on the rails—the man on the outside on the_ sleeper and his wife close to him. The train was at once brought to a standstill and the prisoners placed in one of the carriages and conveyed to the Port, where they were given into custody.—Constable Rouse proved the accused to have been in a state of intoxication when arrested.—The male prisoner had nothing to say in his defence, and the female stated her husband was drunk, but that she was sober.—The Bench, in giving judgment, said it was a fortunate thing for the accused that they had only been charged with drunkenness. They had by their reckless conduct not onlj endangered their own lives but those of others. It was almost miraculous that they had escaped with life. They were fined 20s each, or three days’ imprisonment with hard labor.
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Evening Star, Issue 3783, 9 April 1875, Page 2
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210RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS. Evening Star, Issue 3783, 9 April 1875, Page 2
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