MAGISTRATES' COURTS.
CHPJSTCHURCH. Saturday, January 2. [Before G. L. Hellish, Esq, KM.] DRUNK AND COMMITTING A BREACH 01' THE PEACE. .Sarah Jane Battcock, arrested for being drunk and striking a man in the front of the Golden Age Hotel, in view of Constable Dance, was fined 40s. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Robert Purvis, against whom there had been several previous convictions for drunkenness, was lined 40s; Hugh Brown was fined 5s ; Andrew G. Brown, 5s ; and Annie Osborne, an old offender, was lined 40s.
COMMITTING A NUISANCE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. Edward McCay was charged with committing this offence the previous evening, on the Kaiapoi hue. Fined 40s. ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Mary A. Gibson Mas charged with this offence. Sergeant Wills stated that prisoner's husband came to the depot on Thursday night, and repoi-ted that his wife had attempted to commit suicide. He (witness) went to a house at Addington, and found the accused on the floor in fits. Dr Coward subsequently ordered her removal to the hospital. Mrs Hester, who lived next door to accused's house, stated that she (accused) spoke to her about committing the act, and asked her to write to her mother in London. Immediately afterwards she heard that Mrs Gibson was in the tank, and witness's husband ran and pulled her out. She was insensible at the time when taken out. Mr Hester corroborated his wife's evidence, and said he didn't know whether Mrs Gibson had fallen into the tank in a fit. He knew she was subject to fits. Mr Parkerson, surgeon at the hospital, stated that when defendant was brought there she was sensible, all questions put to her rationally. His Worship said there was no evidence to show that the attempt at sucide had been wilful, and as one of the witnesses had stated that defendant was subject to fits, he would dismiss the charge. A second charge of larceny was then preferred against the accused, and on the application of Chief Detective Feast, she was remanded until Monday.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 177, 2 January 1875, Page 2
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