MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2524, 11 May 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUBOH. Thursday, May 11.

[Before O. Whitefoord, Esq., B.M.]

Dbunkbnness. —Mary Cunningham, for being drunk and smashing twenty-four panes of glass in the house of Thomas Collier, at Sydenham, was fined £2 and ordered to pay £1 5s for the damage done, or, in default, fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labor. Mary Craig was fined 10j, or, in default, forty-eight hours' imprisonment with hard labor. For a first offence a man was fined ss, or, in default, twenty-four hours' imprisonment with hard labor.

Violent Assault. —Arthur Piercy was brought up on remand from May 4th charged with having violently ateaulted one Elizabeth Budman on or about March 3rd last. He pleaded guilty. It appeared that on the date named the prisoner struck Budman on the left wrist with a piece of wood. Budman had sinoe been confined, and died in the hospital last week. As she was still suffering from an injury to her wrist when she died, her deposition before death in relation to the oharge against prisoner was taken, and a post mortem examination was made. She stated that prisoner, with whom she had been cohabiting, struok her in a moment of passion, and had not on the whole behaved badly to her. Dr. Russell, who made the post mortem examination, .deposed that he found the articulation of the wrist bones severed. That injury, however, had nothing whatever to do with the oause of death. His Worship said that, as the woman had been suffering for two months from the injury inflicted by prisoner, the offence could not be passed over lightly. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor. Civil. Oases.—Donald v Duncan, claim £3 6 , for wages. Mr Perceval for plaintiff. 'Judgment for plaintiff for £2 4s, with costs. Mrs Donald v McLellan, claim £2 4s 61, wages as nurse. Mr Perceval for plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff for amount olaimed, with costs. Donald v Gribbin, claim £3 Is 4d, for board and lodgings. Mr Peroeval for plaintiff. Judgment for the amount olaimed, with costs. Judgments were for plaintiffs without opposition in—Jacob v Lightfoot, £4 9s 6 1, and Preece v Butcher, £l2 2s 3d. Judgments were for plaintiff by default in— Isitt v Fleming, £4O ; Treleaven v Markey, £4 9ißd ; Hiorns v Holland, £1 3s 2d ; same v Robinson, 5s ; and Avon Boad Board v Martin, £4 18a. Garrick and Oowlishaw v Ansted, and same v Clark were adjourned till May 18th. LTTTELTON. Thtjbsday, May 11. [Before J. Ollivier, Esq., 8.M., and J. W. Smith, Esq., J.P.] Lunacy.—A man named Kittenberg, alias Smith, who was sentenced lately to three months' imprisonment for larceny, was committed to Sunnyside on the medioal evidence of Drs. Bouse and Maodonald. Must Hkgibteb —A number of persons who had not registered their dogs were fined 10s each and costs. Civxii Casks. —Hathorly v Fisher, claim £5 Is 61 ; judgment for plaintiff. Oathro v Tow, olaim £2 53; judgment for plaintiff.