RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2132, 3 November 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY

(Before H. C. Lawlor and E. W. Puckey

Esqs., J.P's.) STBAY GOATS.

Catherine Coolahan was called to answer a charge (adjourned from yesterday) of allowing three goats to wander at large in the public street. Barney McGarrigle was present to represent Mrs Coolahan, and he pleaded guilty. Fined 2s for each.goat and costs. BREAKING WINDOWS.

George Leslie, Hugh Macke.y and John Coutts were charged that they did unlawfully and wilfully commit damage to and upon the glass of a certain window, the property of one Theodore Woods by breaking the said glass, thereby doing injury to the amount of ten shillings, on the 28th October. The defendants were " Three hobadahoys, Neither men nor boys." Mr Bullen said the three lads, with another, were sky-larking on the footpath, a practice only too common between : Grahamstown and Shortland. While doing this, one pushed the other and broke a pane' of glass. The charge had ■ been made for wilfully and maliciously breaking the window, tut it did not appear that it was done wilfully, and the defendants had paid for the damage done. Under these circumstances he (Mr Bullen) would ask leave to withdraw the charge against defendants, but he would' request the Bench to administer a caution to those lads in order that it might serve as a warning to them and others. The Bench admonished the defendants on their conduct, and warned them that the punishment for such an offence as that they had just escaped was a severe one. Mi' Lawlor, one of the presiding Justices, remarked that instances had frequently come under his notice of skylarking on the footpaths, a practice much >to be deprecated. The defendants were then discharged. Court adjourned.