MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 158, 4 July 1872, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Before C. Hunter Brown, and W. Wells, Esqs., J.J.P. Yesterday. William Paap v. John Cockram. —lu I bis ease the complainant stated that the defendant had threatened to split his head open with au axe, and therefore prayed that he might be bound over to keep the peace. Mr. Fell. appeared for the defendant. Emma Cockram stated that the complaiDant on Sunday last rode through a field at the back of the turnpike with a view to evading the toll, and she went out to remonstrate with him saying that there was no thoroughfare the way he had gone, whereupon he said he would make a thoroughfare, and threatened her'with his fist and then struck her with his open hand. She called out to her husband who came out with an axe and said if Paap struck her again he would cleave him in two with it. John Chapman corroborated the above evidence. Case dismissed with costs £l 15s. William Paap was charged with unlawfully assaulting and beating Emma Cockram. Defendant first denied, and then admitted the offence. Fined £5 and costs, or, in default, one month's.imprisonment William Paap was charged by John Cockram with evading the payment of the toll at the Waimea fTollgate. Mr. Fell appeared for the complainant and Mr. A. Adams for the defendant. John Cockram stated, lam the lessee of the Turnpike on the Waimea Road. On Suuday la&t I saw William Paap comins towards tbe town on horseback. He stopped before he came to the gate, and went to some slip bars and took them clown. I went, to him and said. You are evading the toll. He said he would do it and went through. He went through three sets of slip bars and evaded the toll. Defendant was fined £l and costs, £l 10s. John McKay for allowing his cows to stray on the Haven Road was fined in the usual amount. Alexander George Smith, a seaman on board the brig Alarm, was charged with stealing a coat and waistcoat, the property of J. S. Smith the mate of the said vessel. Sentenced to two months' imprisonment with bard labor. A. G. Smith was also charged with deserting from the brig Alarm, and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment.,