RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3730, 8 December 1880, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before Captain jSkene and L. Bagnall Esqrs., J.s P.) DBTTKK AND DI3OBDEBLY. Elizabeth Birdwood was charged with being drank and disorderly. She pleaded not guilty. Constable Stapleton said that the prisoner was a most disreputable person, and was frequently drunk. She was drunk yesterday. , .- -. - She was fined 10s and costs. Frederick Bodewald said that the prisoner was using obscene language in Rolleston street, and called his wife very filthy names. Men were in the habit of frequenting the house. Her general behaviour was objectionable to the neighbourhood. Sergt.-Major O'Grady said that, there were several previous convictions against the prisoner. . For the, second offence she was sen-1 tenced to fourteen days imprisonment. „ i THBEATENING LANGUAGE. . | Michael Conroy was oharged with using threatening language towards George Nathaniel Brassey on the day of the election.

Mr Brassey said be did.not wish to press the charge against the defendant,^ and would ask the Bench to discharge* him with a caution. Before he concluded he would draw the attention of the Bench to the report in the Advertiser which appeared this morning. The - Bench would see that there was no truth in the report, and that the reasons for the adjournment were of a totally differeat nature than those reported. He would ask the Bench to comment on the careless* ness of reporters. . ■ . ■ : Captain Skene said he had read the report in the Advertiser, and the reporter must have drawn largely on his imagination for the facts. If newspapers could not send competent reporters, they must expect to have their reports contradicted. . " • Sergt.-Major O'Grady mentioned' Chat he had to send the police several times after the defendant, as he was abusing respectable inhabitants. There - were several previous convictions against Conroy. The Bench bound the defendant over to keep the peace for three months in one surety of £10, and himself in £20. Court adjourned.