RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT, WESTPORT.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 197, 18 March 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT, WESTPORT.

Tuesday, Mabch 17. Before J. Giles, Esq., M.D., R.M. PETTY LARCENY. Jacob Lazaar, remanded from yesterday, charged with stealing a £1 note, was brought up to receive judgment. Dr Giles said that ho did not consider the evidence sufficient to sustain a conviction. He therefore discharged the prisoner. ASSAULT. Harry Dufty was brought up charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with obstructing and resisting Constable M'Mahon in the execution of his duty. . The constable deposed—On Monday night I arrested Dufty, and took him to the lock-up. Ho was drunk at tho time, and very noisy. After I got him into the ante-room at the lock-up, I went to get the key of the cells, in the meanwhile Dufty had opened tho door and bolted. I chased him, and after an obstinate struggle of a quarter of an hour, managed, with the assistance of Constable Rigby, to tring him back to the lock-up. Constable Rigby proved helping to arrest D ufty. The Magistrate ordered prisoner to pay a fine of £l, as it was a more serious case than tho general drunken ones brought before him. ATTEMPT AT A RESCUE. Thomas Milncr was charged with assaulting and obstructing Constable M'Mahon in the execution of his duty, and with attempting to rescue Dufty from the hands of the police. Constable M'Mahon stated that whilst (struggling with Dufty he asked Milner to go for assistance, this ho refused to do, and afterwards tried to liberate Dufty, and used threatening language to effect his purpose. The prisoner wished tbe case adjourned to give evidence as to his whereabouts at the time in question, and the Magistrate adjourned the case until to-day, bail being allowed, himself in £3O, and two sureties of £ls each. CHARLES LEMPEORT Y. JOHN CAMPBELL. The prosecutor in this case was a storekeeper residing on Addison's Flat. He sued the defendant for his share in goods supplied to a party of four miners, of whom prosecutor stated defendant was one. The defendant admitted £4 os of the debt, but disputed the other portion. The Magistrate remarked that this was a case where the storekeeper head trusted some diggers, without satisfying himself who were the parties forming the company. He did not consider the case proved, and gave judgment for plaintiff for the amount admitted by defendant, and costs. DONALD M'LEOD V, CHARLES BICHENO. This was an application for wages due by defendant. The case was heard some time since, on which occasion plaintiff gave a bill of particulars of work done in November, and a nonsuit was . recorded to enable him to amend his plea. He now charged for eighteen and three-quarters' days' |work done in December. The defendant disputed tbe time, and after some further evidence, the magistrate gave judgment for six and a-half days' work. Defendant had obtained a judgment against Jplaintiff for a larger amount, but the magistrate ordered him to pay tho amount of present judgment into court, and jput a lien upon it in the usual way. After a number of debt cases of no public interest, tho Court adjourned until to-day at 10 a.m.