RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3756, 11 January 1881, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before Major Murray and H. C. Lawlor Esqs., J.'sP.) ASSAULT. — Skelton was charged with assaulting Dennis Connelly, a boy aged 11 years, on the 6th of January. Mr Brassey defended. Dennis Connelly, deposed, that on the 6th of January., ac was on Messenger's Spur Creek, near his own house, when the defendant came up to him and hit him over the head with his fist and on the leg with his stick. He charged him with throwing stones. „ Defendant had never treated witness in a like manner before. Mr Lawlor remarked that it was a most dangerous practicc=—that of throwing stones—and the bench would have: to inflict a heavy penalty on boys practicing the habit. To Mr Brassey: My brother was throwing stones but I was not. My mother told me to lay the information., The defendant stated that he merely told the youngster not to throw stones, and also stated that the boys were a nuisance to the neighbours. The Court dismissed tie case, and administered a rebuke to the boys for throwing stones. The Court expressed a hope that if the boys gave any further cause of annoyance that the neighbours would bring them before the Court, when they would be severely punished. Court adjourned.

THE &TATE OF THE BETIEINO- BOOM.

MrH.C. Lawlor psked Mr Allom if anything was going to be done to put the retiring, or Magistrate's room into a state fit for the Magistrate adjudicating in Court. As at present, the room was in such a condition that it was utterly unfit j to take any professional man or Magistrate into. Did Mr Allom know anything about it or could he give the Court any information on the matter p ■-„ Mr Allom said he was aware of the disgraceful state of the room. It had been Mr Kenny's when he was SubInspector, but when the services of that officer had b^en dispensed with, the room was abandoned, and it was to be used now tas a judge's room, for which purpose it had been originally intended. He would suggest that the Bench should forward a complaint to the Government in writing, and so get the matter remedied. Mr Lawlor said the Bench took, the opportunity of makinfr the complaint now that workmen were about, when any alteration could be effected. The room was in a disgraceful condition. The subject then dropped. •