RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1981, 11 May 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. Before W. Fbaseb, Esq., R.M. A FEMALE INEBKIATE. Jane French was charged with having been drunk and disorderly on the .Beach Eoad. She pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s or 24 hours' imprisonment. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Jane French was also charged with j making use of indecent language in a | public, thoroughfare, to wit, in the Waiotahi Creek, on the sth inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Bridget Gardner deposed—Knew defendant, who resided above the house of witness on the same side. Saw defendant on Saturday coming up the Tramway. Witness was in her house, about 100 yards from the tram. She heard Mrs French making use'of very bad expressions. She said to witness, "Come out you— —• , and I'll fight you." (Witness repeated other language, as made use of by defendant, which was perfectly horrible.) .. , Defendant said the whole grievance was about her son, who had been. living with Mrs Gardner. Mrs Gardner had attacked her (defendant)., She was now living with a man named Johnson. Mrs Gardner (by the Court)—l am a married woman. My husband is in Melbourne, and I am living with a man named Johnson. I never lived with defendant's son. > . Maria Curtis, daughter of Bridget Gardner, corroborated the .evidence given by her mother. " Defendant said the had only to say that she did not make use of the language. She could not pass up or down the , creek without Mrs Gardner's man whistling and calling her names. Her husband was away —the last she heard of him he was in Brisbane. She had four children —all of them grown up, and able to take care of themselves. Her ton was liring up the Waiotahi creek. Detective Brennan deposed that defendant had a bad character, and frequent complaints were made by respectable persons as to her conduct.. His Worship said he would reserve his decision till he heard the next charge against defendant. a woman's quarrel. n*^ Jane French was further charged with having made use of abusive and insulting language towards one Bridget Gnrdner, for the purpose of annoyance. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Bridget Gardner deposed that the language complained of took place on Wednesday last. She chiefly com- j plained of the language oh account of her | daughter, who had been educated in the i Convent. A man named Pearce, with ' whom defendant was living, tried to get | her home, when she became furious. | Henry Pearce said—He heard defen- I dant singing out, but the words he could not hear. He tried to get. her home. She was slightly the worse* for liquor. Whatever defendant said it was intended for Mrs Gardner, who answered back.

Defendant denied all that had been said to her detriment, in to to; also that she was living with Pearce. For the first offence, for making use of abusive language, defendant was fined 40s or 24 hours' imprisonment; in the second, she was bound over, to keep the peace for two months, in her own recognisances of £20, and one security in a like amount. Court adjourned. .