MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 338, 13 July 1875, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday, July 13. (Before G. L. Hellish, Esq., R.M.) Drunk and Disorderly. James Anderson, Henry Bennett, and Charles Glennie were each fined 5s for drunkenness. Silas Hawkes for being drunk and using obscene language, 10s; and Arthur Spring, for a similar offence, and also assaulting the barman at the Criterion hotel, 20s. Joseph Elstob, charged with drunkenness and using profane language, was fined 20s. Drunkenness and Indecency. —Edward Butler, for being drunk and committing an act of exposure, was fined 20s. KAIAPOI. Monday, July 12. (Before C. Whitefoord, Esq, 8.M., and J. Birch, Esq.) Alleged Wipe Desertion.— Frederick Hohoen, on the information of Selina Louisa Hohoen, was charged with deserting her. Complainant was granted an adjournment to communicate by telegram with Mr Joynt, whom she said she expected to conduct the case. At 11,30 the Resident Magistrate.again had the case called. Complainant stated she had been married to accused five years. They had no children, and till lately were living together at Leithfield. Previous to last April he went away four months shearing. and did not write to her or contribute to her support. Since then he had left her entirely and gone to the Ashburton. Complainant could assign no reason for his going away. Before he went he kissed her, and they parted good friends. He left her without any money, as a day or two before that he had knocked her down and rifled her pockets. She was still living in his house. G. Dean, called by complainant, gave evidence that she was servant for him at Rhodes Bay some years ago, at which time she was respectable and well conducted. Accused made a statement that complainant had become a habitual drunkard. She had joined the teetotalers once, and the Templars twice, besides being bound over to keep the peace, but always broke out worse than before. Last time she was before the Court she had spent over £3. They had a shop at Leithfield, but he was compelled through her conduct to sell out, and when he went away shearing he left her the house, a quarteracre garden, and paddock, a sewing-machine, .and/plenty of furniture and domestiq requisites, a list of which he put in. Once she cut his eye by throwing a mug at him, and at another time threw a knife at him, to that he feared for his life, on which two occasions he had been compelled to chastise her with a piece of line. - She was married to him as a spinster, but he had learnt she had another husband living. He had expressed his intention to allow her-'to live in the house so long as she would behave properly. t Inspector Barsham, in reply to the Magistrate, gave the woman a bad character. -The Magistrate said he had to consider whether the complainant had not given accused reason to leave her. His statements were corroborated by the pojice and records of the Court, therefore, in consequence of the violent conduct shown by complainant,, no order would be made so long as accused allowed her the undisturbed use of the house, but if accused made any change with regard to that understanding the case could be brought up again. The parties then left.