MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2341, 4 October 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

4P> _ OEBISICHUSOH. Ttjbbday, October 4. [Before J. E. Parker and R. Westenra, Esqs., JP.'e.] DmiNKENUESB. Elizabeth Bennet, who had been arrested on Saturday for being drunk, was let out on bail, and appearing on Monday morning very drunk, was rearrested. She was now again brought up, this time sober, after her twenty-four hours' detention in the lock-up, and was fined 10s and Is cab hire, or forty-eight hours' im. prisonment. James Whelan w»b fined ss, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment. For a first offeree a man was fined in the same amount.

Wnini DBBTBUorioN of Pbofbbty.— Joseph Sparks was brought up, on remand from Monday, charged with this offence. Mr Stringer appeared for the prosecution. Thos. Mull ins, lioensee of the Junction Hotel, Lincoln road, deposed to the following effect: Prisoner went into the bar of the hotel about half-past six on the evening of Saturday last. He was drunk. He asked for a glass of beer, which the landlord refused to serve him with. He asked somebody who was present to shout for him, but the landlord still refused to serve him. Prisoner then pioked up another man's beer, drank some of it up and threw the rest over the landlord. He followed this up with helf a pint of water, and finally aimed the pewter measure out of which he had drank at the head of the landlord, who dodged the missile, and it smashed some bottles behind the bar. Prisoner then hit a man named Wallace who was in the bar, stooping down, on the back of the head, and when the latter remonstrated he struck him in the face and male his nose and mouth bleed Afterwards prisoner attempted to clamber over the bar, and the landlord hit him over the head with a pewter measure, upon which prisoner went outside, and, picking up stones of considerable size, fired them at intervals during ten minutes through the window, the effect of which was to tolerably wreck the contents of the bar. Finally, the landlord procured assistance and prisoner went away. On taking stock, he found that the following things had been broken, viz., 11 bottles of brandy, 9 bottles of whiskey, 4 flasks of brandy, 6 bottles of claret, 9 bottles of beer, 10 bottles of cordials, 3 decanters, about 2 gallons (in bottles) of draught spirits, 10 drinking glasses, 2 kerosene lamps, 1 clock, 2 fancy window glasses, 3 pictures, 4 show cards, and 2 large panes of glass, being in all of the estimated value of £ls 13s. Several witnesses corroborated the evidence of the landlord. After hearing their statements read over, prisoner said he had nothing to say to the charge, and was committed to take his trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court to be held at Ohristchurcb.