RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4296, 7 October 1882, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before H. Kenrick, Esq., R.M.

MBS NEWSON'S EFFIGY. Mra Graham was charged with annoying and inciting others to annoy Mrs Newson.

Mrs Newson deposed that on the 25th and 26th they were very much annoyed. On the 23rd, after Mr Graham was bound over to keep the peace, as she was going home, she met Wm. Dalziel. He came running up to her and told her she was going to be burnt in effigy; On Monday night the crackers went off in all diree tions. They did not go towards her house, as the wind was blowing in another direction, but she heard a boy say that he had sixpence worth which he would throw against Newson's. On Tuesday they were worse and worse, like a lot of wolves. Mrs Graham, Mrs Owens, Mrs Oatridge, Mrs Moran and others were at the corner laughing, and had the effigy there. The children I old her the effigy oould not be burnt that night, but the crackers were set flying again, and the street was full of boys. 'The wind was very higbu She sent for Mr Stapleton, who found the effigy in a barrow, and she was thankful to him for coming.

Wm. Dalziel deposed he was amongst the boys who let the crackers off on Monday night near Mrs Newson's. Mrs Graham told him to get trackers, and fire them at Mrs Newsm's. She told them she would give them a tin of lollies, if they carried Mrs Newson's effigy round. Mrs Moran and Mrs Graham made up the effigy. The sixpence was giren him to buy crackers, not to induce him to go home. - '

Mrs Cotty gave corroborative evidence. Mrs Elizabeth Moran, for the defence, deposed that she was going down the street between 7 and 8 o'clock on Mon» day night, and she saw Mrs Graham, who said she had just given Dalziell's boy sixpence to go home, as her daughter was sick, and they were annoying her. She saw the effigy in a barrow near Mrs Graham's, and she asked, " Whose effigy is that?" Did not know who prepared it.

Mrs Margaret Owen deposed she was not present when the boys were letting off the fire works on Tuesday, and Mrs Graham gave them 1 sixpence to go home. She knew nothing of the effigy. Mrs Graham never spoke to.her in a bad way •f Mrs Newson. She saw an effigy, but saw no likeness.

His Worship: If that is all you know, Mrs Owens, there is no use detaining you longer. Mrs Graham denied doing anything to annoy Mrs Wewson; she thought these proceedings were the outcome of spite. His Worship said he was afraid there was a great deal of foundation in fact for the complaint. He had no doubt the boy's statement that she gave him money to buy the fireworks was correct;; it was a matter of notoriety, and all* the boys were prepared for the occasion. He thought she had also a great deal to do with the effigy in spite of the witnesses who knew so little. She probably was annoyed at the proceedings against her husband, and chose this mode of exhibiting her vexation. He would adjourn the case for a fortnight, and if she refrained from annoying Mrs Newson in any way JlCrVt»nj-uvofjt.l«<«nv>/<i-^c.«U-l»vaBUDp(jt;li~;" if she did not, he would call upon her to find heavy sureties to keep the peace.