MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2163, 31 January 1881, Page 3

MAGISTRATES ' COURTS.

CHBIBTCHTJBOH. MONDAY, JANUABY 31. [Before E. Westenra and J. E. Parker, E»qs., J.P.'s.] Dbt/nkbnnbss.—Wm. Bennett, for being drunk and indecent on the South town belt on Saturday lost, and for destroying property in a cell at the lock-up, was fined 26a, or forty-eight hours' imprisonment. Assaults. —Thomas Patrick Murphy was charged with assaulting Isabella Murphy. Mr Holmes appeared for plaintiff, Mr Stringer for defendant. Plaintiff stated that defendant, having inveigled her son (his nephew) from homo, and led him into bad courses, she went to defendant's residence and found her son there, where he had been for two days. She ordered tho boy to return home, and, having spoken her mind pretty freely to defendant, he seized her by the throat and jammed her head agaicßt the wall. Defendant admitted tho assault, under great provocation, plaintiff having oalledhim a loafer, threatened him with a tomahawk, &«. Defendant was cautioned and tho case was dismissed. Albert Lucas, charged by his sister Solinu Lucas with ill-using her, was allowed to go this time with a severe reprimand. Miscellaneous.—Nat. Vale, W. Brooker, W. J. Stevens, and GK Turner, wero fined 5s aaoh for allowing horses to wander at large. A oase against J. Grindrod for using abusive and threatening language to G. W. Maguiro was dismissed, the Bench considering that prosecutor was as bad as the other. J. Linney, lor a like offence against John Smith, was fined 10s. Martha Jones obtained an order protecting her earnings against her husband, John Jones, whom she accused of being an habitual drunkard and treating her with gross cruelty. The indenturss of Holloway, binding him to Charles Cooper, a tailor, were deolared void from informality, and a case against the former for non-attendance to work was dismissed, Cooper to pay costs and solicitor's fee £1 Is.