MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1294, 13 May 1878, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, May 13. [Before R. J. S. Harman, Esq., and Dr. Deamer, J.P.s] Dbttnk. William Lambert, for being drunk, and for assaulting the constable who arrested him, was fined 60s, or in default sent to prison for forty-eight hours. The Bench remarked that the prisoner had had seventeen convictions recorded against him in six years. A first offender was discharged. Assaulting heb Husband. Bridget Ferrick was charged with having assaulted husband Anthony. Anthony Ferrick, whose head was bandaged up, deposed that he lived in Lyttelton street. On Thursday night he was told that his wife, the prisoner, waa drinking. He knocked off work on Friday to watch her. On that day she went to the Caversham Hotel. Witness followed her thither and tried to carry her away. A man named Butler held witness down while the prisoner hit him with some bricks. He had been so injured that ha had been compelled to go to the hospital. To the Bench —I was sober. The man struck me under the ear while I was trying to carry my wife out. The man held me down while my wife hit me. To prisoner— I did not seize you by the throat and Bay I would stick you the same as Sergeant Hughes had been. Thomas Preston, labourer, deposed that the barman at the Caversham refused to serve prisoner as she was already under the influence of drink. The man Butler took money from another man's pocket, bought a bottle of whiskey with it, and gave it to prisoner. The prisoner in her defence accused her husband of habitual drunkenness. She admitted that she might have assaulted her husband, but she had no recollection of hitting him with a brick. She was sent to prison for seven days. Oases Adjoubned.—Matthew Moorshesd was charged with neglecting to provide for an illegitimate child, of which Arabella Williams is the mother. Mr Joynt obtained an adjournment of the case on behalf of the defendant, who wished to procure an im« portant witness. A charge against Jamca Mitchell for neglecting to support his mother was further adjourned for four weeks.