MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2318, 8 September 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUBOH. Thursday, September 8. [Before J. Oliivier and J. E. Parker, Esqs., J.P.’s ] Drunkenness.-—For a first offence a man was fned 10s; Ellen Jordan was fined ss.

Vagrancy.—Anna Utting was brought up on remand from September sth charged with having no lawful means of support. The Banco said they had ascertained that the authorities at the Armagh street depot absolutely refused to receive her. Their Worships were unwilling to send her to gaol under the Vagrant Act, but cautioned her that that wouli be the result it she appeared before them again. She was then discharged. Obstructing the Police. —George Stenhouse Bogers and Arthur Walton were charged with the above offence. It appeared that at about three o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, as Constable Henry was conveying to the lock-up a prisoner whom ho had arrested for being drunk, the prisoners interfered, and, hustling the policeman, the man in his charge got away. They were fined 20s each, or, in default, forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.

Larceny. —Fredk. Archer was brought up charged with stealing, from the shop door of John Percy, of Colombo street, a pair of boots valued at 18s 6d. He bad snatched them as he was passing, and was caught in the act. Prisoner pleaded guilty, saying ho was drunk at the time. He was sentenced to bo detained in custody till 5 p.m. The Bench remarked that while they could not overlook the offence, they had not much sympathy with shopkeepers who exposed goods for sale outside their doors. It was merely offering a bait to the mischievous or dishonest, and when shopkeepers suffered from the practice they deserved it.

Alleged Cruelty to Animals. —A case of this nature against J. W. Crabtree, adjourned for further evidence on August 24th, was now dismissed, the evidence showing that the horse, which was the cause of the action, did not belong to defendant.