RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 422, 4 September 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (licforu T. W. Parker, litoq., H.M.) ASSAfLT. Thomas Lambert was charged with having assaulted Mary Barter at an early hour this morning. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. The complainant having been placed in the witness-box, commenced crying, and said " I don't know the man, sir. On, oh, oh. I don't want to say anything against him. Oh, oh. oh." The Bench remarked that as the assault was not of a serious nature, the charge might be withdrawn. Complainant: The man came up to me in the street, and when I told him to go away he gave me a smack acrosH tno mouth. Oh, oh, oh. His Worship after slating that if the assault was of a serious nature, the complainant would not be acting rightly in refusing to go on with the charge, allowed the case to he withdrawn. OiJSOENK LANCiTAriE. Thomas Lambert was also charged with using obscene language in Thames-street early this morning, ami with resisting Constable Donovan in the execution of li.'b lufv. Constable Donovan slated that about half past two o'clock this morning, he heard a woman calling out "Murder." On going to the house of Mrs. Limbort, in Thames-street, the woman Barter gave the prisoner in charge for having assaulted her. She said that he had pulled her out of bed by the hair of her head. The prisoner had resisted and assaulted him on the way to the station, and made use of very bad language. Ho did min a very loud voice, and might have been heard all over the town. Constable Whytc gave corroborative evidence, and said the prisoner was very violent, and his language was disgusting. lie first heard the noise while he wasat the Kail way Station, and on reaching Messrs. Hood and Shenuan's he distinctly heard the bad language. The prisoner made use of had language all the way to the lock-up from Lane's corner, w.iere he (witness) met Constable Donovan with the prisoner. Mary Lambert, a married woman, living in Thames-street, gave evidence as to prisoner and another man go'ng to her boarding-house and asking for a bed. While there they commenced npiabUing ami lighting, ami continued to do so until the polios came. She also stated that she heard the prisoner shouting and making a greater noise after the constable arrested him.

The prisoner made a rumbling statement, t:,e bunhn of which was that ho had been very quiet until the countable had commenced 10 ill-use him.

11 is Worship seiiiemvd prisoner to 10 days' im| risoument for obscene language, and 21 days for resisting the police. I,\K<KNV. James Trivniau, oliax .lames Doody, on warrant, was charged willi having, at Boundary Creek-, on the LMst. Miy stolen a potato fork of Urn value of 7m. d.L, the property of one Charles Jackson and another.

The prisoner, wli<> siid hh name was .James Doody Trowmans, pleaded N<it guilty. On the application of Sub-Inspector Smith, who slated t'<a(. the whole of the witnesses in tin; case were absent in tho country, tlio ease was r.-mandi'd until Friday next. Bail was allowed nf two sureties in LlO each. U'NACV. John Uinchy, on remand, wa't charged »viih being of unsound mind, ■unl ordered to bo Kent to the Lunatic Asylum, Dnnedin.