MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2695, 27 November 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, November 27. [Before John Ollivier, Esq., R.M.]

Drunkenness. Eliza Wilson w£ charged with being drunk and with bcin an habitual drunkard, having been cor victed eleven times in this year. She wa sentenced to be imprisoned for thre months, and to be kept at hard laben Mary Wadsworth was fined £3, or i default four days’ imprisonment with har labor. For a first offence a man wa fined ss. .Cruelty to a Horse. —AVm. Hooker, o] bail, appeared to answer a charge of ill treating a horse by working it in harnes while its shoulders were sore. Mr Joyci appeared for the Society for Prevention o Cruelty to Animals, Mr Stringer for de fendant. The evidence showed that then were two small sores on the horse’s shoul ders, and the animal was in very low con dition. If the collar had been in gooc order there would have been nothing wrong in working the horse. The Dench though! that while the police had not exceeded their duty, there had been no wilful cruelty, and the case was dismissed. Stealing a Swag. —Jacob Shields was charged with stealing a swag, valued at the property of Wm. Barber. The police not being ready with the case the prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next. Bail was allowed, one surety in .£25. Violent Assault. —Joseph Figioni, an Italian, who had been remanded on the 20th inst., was again brought up on this charge. The prisoner was defended by Mr Joyce. It appeared that on the afternoon of November 13th, prisoner, without provocation, assaulted in the Southern Hotel the prosecutor, Owen Barber. They wore put out, and the prisoner again forced Barber to fight. The result of the fight was that Barber was seriously cut about the head, and had been taken to the hospital. Prosecutor swore that a man struck him with a stone, and two witnesses deposed that the prisoner was the man. The prosecutor appeared to have been drinking before the assault. Owing to that and the blow he received he seemed to have a very imperfect knowledge of what had occurred. Defendant now said that he had been waylaid by prosecutor and another man, and he had thrown the stone in self-defence. He was fined £5, expenses of three witnesses, £1 10s, and doctor’s fee, £1 Is. Escaping prom a Bailipp. —G. W. Rogers was charged with this offence. Mr Spackman appeared for accused. J. J. Turnbull, a bailiff of the Resident Magistrate’s Court, deposed that on Thursday evening last he had arrested accused near the City Hotel on civil process. After the warrant had been produced the prisoner slipped into the hotel and out by a back way. He was not arrested till the following day. Accused now said that he had not attempted an evasion. He asked the bailiff to go into the hotel and be paid. The bailiff refused, and finally went away. Prisoner was fined £5, or in default one month’s imprisonment with hard labor.