RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5765, 20 September 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Friday, September 19. (Before J. H- Wallace, Baq., J. 8.) DRUNKENNESS. Two inebriates were dealt with in tho usual way. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Annie Corbett was charged with attempting to commit suicide by drowning early on Thursday morning at the railway wharf. Mr. James stated that the defendant had heen drinking heavily lately. She had quarrelled with her husband who was at Petone. The Bench discharged the woman with a caution. THE NEW ZEALANDER HOTEL BOBBERY. Houora Morgan and her husband, John Hedley Morgan, were again brought up ou remand ; the former charged with stealing a quantity of goods from the New Zealander Hotel, and the latter with receiving the same. A remand was again applied for by Mr. James, Mrs. Mountain being still too ill to attend. Mr. Allan, who appeared for the prisoners, asked that the male prisoner’s bail might be enl.n.:'.:d indefinitely, so that he might obtain work up the country, and the request was granted. Both prisoners were then remanded. THE KAIWARBA STABBING CASE.

George Arbelli was charged with stabbing John Stockbridge at Kaiwarra on the 11th instant.

The prosecutor, a laborer, deposed that he was working at Ngahauratiga, and on the 11th instant he went to Kaiwarra to vote at the Wellington Country Districts election. In the afternoon ho forgot a good deal of what took place. He did not know the prisoner. On coming to his senses tho next morning he found he was stabbed in two places on the head. He had no recollection how he received his injuries. Ho only remembered getting into a row at the Waterloo Hotel. He was now quite recovered. Dr. Gillon deposed that the prosecutor was brought to tho Hospital on tho evening of the 11th with two incised wounds, one on his forehead and the other on bis head. The wounds were not directly serious, but there was always the danger of erysipelas. They could have been produced with a knife. David McNamara, cabdriver, deposed to being at Kaiwarra on the 10th instant. He saw prisoner and Stockbridge together at the Waterloo Hotel and in the road. They were scuffling, and witness saw the gleam of something bright in prisoner's hand. Witness saw him strike Stockbridge over the head five or sir times, and immediately afterwards tho latter’s face was covered with blood. Ho called out that prisoner was using a knife, and he saw Arbelli throw it away. He picked it up and gave it to some one, he forgot to whem, for he was intent upon separating Stockbridge from tho three or four men who were on to him. Charles Crowtber saw the fight, and blood upon prosecutor’s head. He did not seo any blow struck, but saw the knifo picked up. Charles O’Donovan also gave evidence for the prosßoution. Tho prisoner called several witnesses for the defence, among them Mr. Fitzgerald, landlord of tho hotel, James Webb, T. E. Wilson, and two others, all of whom gave evidence, accounting for the wounds by the fact that Stockbridge was pushed through a window and his head cut by the glass. The magistrate considered the evidinco was very conflicting, and gave the prisoner the benefit of the doubt by dismissing the case.