RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 68, 25 January 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.

Masterton, 24th Jax,

(Before H. S, Wardell, Esq., R.M.) George Tait ami J, Remmington were charged on the informatibn'.of : Constable Scale with fighting in tho .public streets the previous afternoon. ' Mr Bunny appeared for Mr Tait. Tho constablo saw Remniington in a fighting attitude, and then witnessed Tait knock him down.' ' He then arrested tho pair of them. Mr Corhett deposed thatßemniington provoked Tait by abusive language, . The Court inflicted a fiue of £l'on each prisoner. . Georgo Tait was then charged by Philip Murtagh with threatening to poison him, P. J. Murtagh sworo that on the 16th inst. ho was in his lifiuso, and heard sonie--0110 call out, "Is Murtagh at home,"' Ho went to the passage and saw defondant, who asked him for a piece of oil-cloth lie had left there. He went with defendant to the stable for it, and tho latter said, "lam awfully persecuted where.l live now: I might as well live in hell." Defendant then offered to work for him, and witness refused, saying, "Tait,-there is the road—travel.'! Tait walked away six or seven yards, and then turned towards witness and said, "You wretches, you all want poisoning," Witness replied, "•Are you going to-do it,'Tait;" and Tait said, " Somebody may do it," and left. In answer tir Mr Bunny; witness' said he was not afraid of defendant" man to man," but lie was afraid of him doing harm to himself oil the sly, or to his wife and family. George Tait, the defendant, sworo that ho was not present at the place in question on the IGth inst. He denied the conversation sworn to by plaintiff, and swore lie did not use tho words attributed, to him. The week before last lie went to complainant for a coat. Complainant ottered to give him money. to carry him out of the place. In reply to complainant,'witness said lie would not swear that he was not on the premises on the IGth of January. ' Tho Court, after pointing out the discrepancy in the evidence given by defendant, bound him over to keep the peace for six months—himself for £SO, aiid two sureties for. a similar amount. Messrs Falloon and Petlierick at once came forward for the bond.