RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4470, 17 July 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Friday, July 16. (Before J. O'. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) Duncan Garrick and Jacob Atkin were charged with being drunk and disorderly. The arresting constable said they were making use of obscene language and endeavoring to enter Brown’s Hotel, the landlord of which had refused them admittance. The first-named offender was fined 205., or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment; the latter 10s., with a similar alternative. August Krouze and Blottner Gosslete, two new arrivals per Lammershagen, had been imbibing colonial beer rather too freely ; the consequence was they were found lying asleep in the gutter. Each of them was fined 55., or in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. William Field for being drunk and incabahle was fined 10s., with the alternative of forty-eight hours. ASSAULT Mrs. Isabella Flint charged Richard J. Bell, her brother, with assaulting her on the afternoon of July 15. Plaintiff said she lived in the same house as her brother. On Thursday afternoon, about half-past three o’clock, he came down stairs, and after having his breakfast asked her youngest sister for the key of the parlor, which was looked. As they had been forbidden to give him the key, his request was not complied with. He then struck her sister in the eye with a scarf. Plaintiff ran in between them, and putting one hand on her sister, pushed her brother away with the other. He then struck her (witness) on the nose and made it bleed. Just then her mother came down stairs and stopped the "row.” Examined by the defendant : She did not strike him on the head with a pair of bellows, nor call him a gaolbird. She told him not to strike her again, as he had not Mrs. Mason’s girls to deal with. Defendant said that on Thursday he had been upstairs painting till about 3 o’clock in the afternoon. On coming down, his sisters began to call him names, among the rest “ gaol-bird.” He asked his youngest sister to give him the key of the parlor, as he wanted to get some clothes. On refusing, he struck her lightly with a scarf to frighton her. Plaintiff then ran between them and struck him on the head with a pair of bellows. His Worship said that this was the second time the prisoner had been charged with this offence, the first time for assaulting his mother, and now it was for assaulting his sister. On the former occasion the case was dismissed, as it appeared from the evidence that the mother was drunk, and that he might not be contaminated by being sent to gaol. There appeared very little hope of the prisoner ever reforming. This time he should suffer for his conduct. Sentenced to imprisonment for one calender month, with hard labor.