RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4571, 13 November 1875, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Friday, November 12. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) DRUNKARDS. Christina Wilson was charged with having been drunk and incapable, and was fined 1.05., or in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. _ Maurice Foley, charged with a similar offence, was dismissed with a caution. Frederick Withers was charged with liaun=. been drunk and incapable. He P ! f aded £ and was fined 10s. and costs or m default to be committed to prison for 4b horns. Thomas Baxter and Mary Bradford weie each fined ss. and costs, with the usual alternative teeing been drunk and incapable on Thursday night. - LARCENY. . ■ J° hn foSnC upon whichMie was charged with stealing clothes, and he was recharged on an information for an indictable offence. Mr. Allan appeared for prisoner. _ The evidence was reheard, and prisoner was formally committed to take his trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. MALICIOUS INJURY. This case, in which Charles Mclntyre was charged with having committed malicious injury to property, was adjourned by consent until Monday next. HOBBEBY. Mary Ann Smith and Margaret Smith, turn characters well known for anything but good, were charged with having stolen a certain sum of money from Edward Bowe Scott. _ Prosecutor deposed that he went into the bouse of defendants, and while there gave the younger one £l. He also gave 10s. to procure brandy. He fell asleep, having been “nobbierisinrr” and when he woke, missed his umbrella, and D a purse which contained money and a two-penny-piece (the one produced). He gave the prisoners in charge. Both prisoners denied thecharge; theyoungei one saying that she was too “ tight at the time to have committed the robbery. The Inspector stated that Margaret Smith was a notorious criminal, having spent a good p of her time in gaol for various offences, f", ~ ‘tri-ra the vounser w oman, - •never before been accused of inert. ffis Worship said he must regard the elder woman as the instructor of the younger, and he° would therefore sentence Margaret Smith to three months’ imprisonment, and Mary Ann Smith to one month. assaulting a constable. John Robson, a new arrival, was charged with having assaulted a policeman. It apneared that defendant was with a crowd of his companions, when a disturbance took place, and ne endeavored to prevent the constable takino- one of the men into custody. ’ Inspector Atchison did not wish to press the chaise, inasmuch as defendant was a new arrival, and might not be aware of bis having rendered himself liable to a fine of £lO, or two months’ imprisonment, without the option of a fine. Fined ss. and costs. A HOUSE or ILL FAME. Jane Ohurchhouse was charged with keeping a disorderly house frequented by improper characters. , , T Remanded for a week, at the request of Inspector Atchison, to give defendant an opportunity of disposing of her guests and becoming decent VAGRANCY. Ann Mathews and Grace Sugini were each committed to prison for three calendar months, with hard labor. The evidence adduced in support of the charge showed that those women were prostitutes of the worst possible type. CIVIL SIDE. There were four civil cases down for hearing. In one—P. J. Murtagh v. J. Eohier, a claim of £1 17s.—judgment went for defendant, each party to pay his own costs; one case was adjourned sine die; and in the two remaining judgment was confessed. The Court then adjourned.