MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 261, 26 August 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHBISTOHUBOH. Saturday, August 26. [Before J. Ollivier, i£tq , B M ] Drunkenness. John McLelland, for being drunk, was fined 10s, or in default forty-eight hours' imprisonment with hard labor .

alleged Intended Evasion. Thomas McGuire was brought up on warrant, charged with intending to leave the colony. Accused had been bound over to appear as prosecutor at the next sessions of the Supreme Court, in a case against Matilda Hansen, for robbery from the person, and had told Detective Toohey, who when in plain clothes had met him, that he intended to go to Sydney to keep clear of the case. He was ordered to find sureties for his appearance at the trial, himself in £SO and another in £6O.

Stealing Lead. He‘ ry Juris (12), Augustus Clements (10), Wm. Hyland (9), and Chari s Thiele were charged with stealing lead of the value of £2 125., the property of Ed. Mitchell. The three first named pleaded guilty. The police withdrew the charge against Thiele, and ho was discharged Sergeant Mason stated that the lead was found in a hand-cart in some back pr raise* in Cathedral square; the place was watched and Clements caught removing it. Clements then told of the others. The boys had also sold to a Chinaman a quantity of lead for which an owner could not be found. Juris ani Clements, who had been previously convicted, were committed to Burnham until they reach the age of fifteen years. Hyland was discharged with a caution. Mr Watson, on behalf of Fung Name, applied that the lead sold to him by the boys, and which had been seized by the police, might be gives up to him. This was allowed, the Magistrate giving him a severe caution against dealing with children in future.

Wife Beating. —Joseph Bradley, charged with this offence, did not appear. Mr Joynt, for the plaintiff, applied for a warrant to issue for bis arrest. Mr Slater, who appeared for him, did not object, and a warrant, returnable on Monday next, was ordered to issue.