MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2136, 29 December 1880, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

OHRIBTOHUROH. Wbdbnsday, Dbobmbbb 29. TBefore J. N. Wood, Esq , B.M. Dbtthkenhbss.—John Wood and John O'Callaghan were fined 5s and oab hire Is each. Wm. Connors, who while being taken to the watoh-house became very violent and assaulted the constable, was fined 5s for being drunk and 40s for the assault. For first offences two men were fined 5s each and cab hire Is.

Assault.—P. W. Grant was charged with violently assaulting Mary Ann Grant, his wife. Prosecutrix fainted when she came into Court, and, besides being shookingly bruised about the faoe, appeared in a very weak state. Mr Spackman appeared for the aocused. Mrs Grant made a long statement, from which it appeared that on Tuesday night her husband went home drunk and without provocation beat her savagely. She further said he was, when sober, a good husband, but when drunk he had a very violent temper. She did not wish to press the case. Mr Spackman, for the accused, admitted the offence, saying that the row had arisen from his meals not being made ready. The magistrate said that on his wife's solicitation prisoner would be discharged, at the same time there had been a most brutal assault, which, but for her intercession, would have been punished severely. Mibcei/laheotts.—A. Thompson, James Hughes, James Beed, and G. Husband were fined 5s and costs, and N. Columbus 10s and costs, for allowing horses to wander at large. Thomas Kerr, for riding on a footpath, was fined 5s and costs. John Harper, for whom Mr Thomas appeared, was charged with driving a horse on a footpath. Defendant has charge of Hey wood and Co.'s horses, which are driven to paddock regularly in a mob down the Perry road. Similar cases have been brought several limes before, it being alleged by the police that the praotice of driving horses as followed by Heywood'a men is a great nuisance and very dangerous. Pines had been inflicted in the previous cases. Defendant produced evidence which showed that he was not in charge of the horse. Case dismissed. Charges against M. Hamilton, a cab-driver, for preventing another cabman from getting a fare, and for plying for hire not being on a cabstand, were dismissed. J. Keeney was fined 5s and costs for driving his vehicle, a cab, over a railway crossing.