RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT
THIS DAT.
(Before H. Kenrick, Esq., R.M. DANGEEOUS FIBEWOBKS:
Wm. Dalziel, Wm. Wood, Benjamin Phillips, and Robert Burns were charged with discharging fireworks in Eollestou street.
Mrs Ellen Cotty deposed that ou the 26th of last month between 9 and 10 o'clook at night ehe saw fireworks, being let off and a fire stick was thrown on her verandah. There were a great number, of boys. They had not annoyed her previously. Dalziel's boy said that Mrs Graham had given them money to buy the crackers, and set them on. The lad Dalziel said, in answer to the Court, that Mrs Graham had given him the money to buy the oraokerß, and he purchased them therewith. Another boy acknowledged to receiving
money from' Mrs Graham ; a third said his mother give him m^ney, and Burns stated he was only an on looker. Mrs Burns came forward and said that as far as she could learn her son was not mixed up with the other boys, but was standing at his gate when they passed, and one of them gave him a cracker. His Worship addressing the boys said they had been guilty of a dangerous and foolish act. It was no harm for boys to amuse themselves with crackers, but it must be in a safe place, and not near houses. There was a law forbidding them being used in the Borough and it was necessary for the safety of the place, as the town might be burnt down through their use. But it would appear that on this occasion they had not even the excuse of doing it for fun, but it was to annoy other people. Although they were boys they had sense enough to know that they were doing wrong in allowing Mrs Graham, to make use of ■. them to disturb other people. He would not punish them, but if such a case came before him again the offenders would be punished severely. He let them off more because the real offenders were the Grahams, who urged them on, and he should like to see them made amenable.
The lads were then discharged, and the Court adjourned.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4294, 5 October 1882, Page 2
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363RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4294, 5 October 1882, Page 2
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