RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, GREYMOUTH.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 198, 20 April 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, GREYMOUTH.

(Before W. H. Revell, Esq^JSfe^"^ U- Thubsday, April 18i ) I Dk^nk and Incapable.— Wiib>ni Munroo. KM was the only individual charged with this, jfl offence who was brought up this morijinif; jl He was fined five shillings p,r twenty-ftilmf'"?^ hours' imprisonment. ';i WJL.KE HEATING. '-. j John M'Davitt, a tailor,, residing in [I Gresson street, was brought up in custody, / 1 charged with having violently beaten his. /■ wife over the head with a piece, pfHobart mM Town paling, about -two, feet long, theiebyi' ■ causing sevr;.v\g^^^^ml.i:l;v}.wrous injuries. 1 I Court, although she had refused to appeail, I uutil subpeened ; her head was bound upl ' fl and she exhibited the appearance of*mucM I Constable Flanagan deposed that he hal H heard loud shrieks -proceeding from thl H prisoner's house, and oil going there he fouiw the complainant lying on a bed in the hanAl H of another woman, and bleeding profuseß I - H from wounds in the head, >vhich had beMl fl inflicted by the. prisoner, whom he tpokj^M J |H • - ■ M'Davitt, the prip^^wue, we»| I.IH that it was not the fjrst t second, owtrij / (I time her ;husband had beaten her vj«Jj r ,, IMm aud that^she Avent in danger of her u&son\l Mm his brutality. Although she gave M\i\'i-j wM dwice with considerable animosity «ais» > - :^H the prisoner, when it was over she mjirea'p: mWM the Magistrate most energetically 1 t^.^j^^^ laiuish him. Her daughter: gave evilic.to'd^^^M the same effect. " ' "f^*T,^H Dr Jackson deposed that he had been call^l^H to see the complainant, and found heiTsnffer?CT^B ing from the effects of a lacerated wound /i*fc^H the right side of the frontal bone, and a eoSSifiß tnsed woniul tb'"ee intlics in length on tlie UM^ upper poitibu of the left side of the scalp;' from which there was copious h;BinniTuge^^H apparently inflicted with such an instrunient^^H as the jagged end of a Jarge stick. She was,.^^B quite. intoxicated when he iii-s ; t*Sav\ ;: li§r?T-| -.-f Mm The prisoner admitted' in his defence tl /'H he had struck his wife in the. manner I iMm scribed, but pleaded- in extenuation of fl_ a I offence that he liad been aggravated with h'ejjli-^B continued drunkenness, and with her havirtf 5 ; il robbed him of L 6 or L 8 that morning, to : t spend in debauchery ; and that it was very ' hard a man's earnings should be thus dissi-' j ] pated by his wife's misconduct. i ; The Bench, takir-g a lenient view of thfe--^ offence from this explanation, bound the pr"'-v v soncr over to keep the peace for three months, i in his own recognizances for L2O, aiidtwo v sureties of LlO each. : . ' | — - ' ■ '. "' - : ' fl Friday, April 19.. 1 This being Good Friday, the Court was^ fm\ closed for all but police cases, of which there ? |B were only two, those of John Quintan and • 'H Philip Weise, Avho had.been more enthusiastic' ■ than temperate in their supp('rT > 6?v,^heir^iß chosen candidate at the previous day'srelecl^ rffl tion, and had hence got theinsc'. ves-j inta j trouble as "drunk and disorderly." On the/ SB consideration that some latitude lriigfit be taken for electioneering excitement, and" that 'Mm they had spent the night in the lock-up,' they jl were discharged "without a fine. . ' :Mt "■ . •■•.. -