POLICE COURT.-This Day.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5002, 23 January 1885, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-This Day.

(Before H. Eenrick, Esq., E.M.)

MOKE TAPU ILEASANTRIES

Edwin and Hugh Flummer were charged, on the information of Frederick Jackson, with having used threatening language, viz.: challenging Jackson to fight, and it was asked tbat they be bound over to keep the peace. Mr Lush appeared for the informant and Mr Miller for the defence. A plea of not guilty was recorded.

Fredk. Jackson, sworn, stated that on the 11th inst. be beard gome loud talking outside his house, and on going to bis back door he saw two of the Plummer family in his yard. Directly he went out they wanted him to go out on the flat to fight, and said if they got him out they would half kill him. He told them to go away, as he thought they had had enough the night before. Edwin Plummer said he had an old grudge against witness, and he would have it out of him. Bore them no ill-will

To Mr Miller: The defendant did not ask him to apologise before asking him to go out on the flat. \ Wm. Jameson deposed to hearing Edwin Plummer speak of having a fight on the 11th inst. with Jackson; this was on the evening before the Sunday morning.

Daniel McLeay swore that he was in Jackson's house on the morning of Sunday, the 11th inst., when two ef the Plummers went to the place. Jackson was in bed at the time, but he got up. Plummer wanted an apology, and said when Jackson appeared that if he got Jackson on the flat he would half kill him. One of them said he could do it with one hand strapped behind him.

Mrs Eliza Jackson said that the Plainmers called at her house and asked for her husband. She said he was in bed. He afterwards came out of his room, and they said if they got him on the flat they would half kill him.

Edwin Plummer, one of the defendan's, deposed that he and his brother went to Jackson's to ask for an apology for the bad language he had used regarding the mother of witness, when Jackson said he would not, they could do their worst; he had done nothing to apologise for ; he did not challenge him to fight; had said on the evening before that he would go down to Jackson's and have it out with him.

Hugh Plummer gave similar evidence

The Bench said it was the result of a drunken quarrel the night before, and had the defendants been present that night when the language complained of was used they might have been provoked to use threats, but there was no excuse for going down coolly the next morning to try and revivify the quarrel. The defendants would be bound over to keep the peace in their own recognisances of £50 each, and two sureties of £10 each, and pay costs £4 14s.