RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 268, 10 June 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Tuesday, .Tune 9, ISGS. (Before J. Giles, Esq., E.M.) LARCENY. Charles Hurhe pleaded not guilty, to stealing a pair of boots of the value of seventeen and sixpence, the property of Smith and M'c Dowel 1. In mitigation of the offence prisoner said, he was drunk at the time and did not know what he was doing. As this was not the first offence and prisoner had recently undergono a sentence for another petty theft, he was sent to gaol for three months, with hard labor. VIOLENT ASSAULT. John Hunter was charged on the information of Nathan Abrahams for having assaulted, beaten and wounded Catherine Abrahams.

Dr Worrall was called, and proved that complainant was so ill from the effects of the violence she had been subjected to that she could not leave her bed. The prisoner was then remanded for eight days, to he brought up in the interim if complainant was well enough to attend. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. Frances Patterson was charged with using abusive and threatening language to Francis Grribbin, on the sth instant. Mr Tyler appeared for the complainant. Complainant said he was manager of a livery stable on the South Spit for Riminer and Forder. Defendant came to the yard on Friday last whilst witness was saddling a horse. She was the worse the liquor, and called him a by thief, a loafer, and a common stable-keeper, and said that she would have him put out of the place. She said that he owed her money, but he did not owe her a shilling. He gave no provocation to her whatever. in reply to defendant, complainant admitted that he had said that the food he had had at her place was not worth paying for. Thomas Jolliffe corroborated the evidence of the complainant as to the language used. In defence, defendant said that she went to ask complainant for money he owed her, when he abused her and called her eveiything. She denied in tolo that she had used the language attributed to her. The Magistrate fined defendant 10s and costs. If another charge was made of the kind she would be bound over to keep the peace and have to find sureties for good behaviour. ASSAULT. Gustave Brown was charged with unlawfully assaulting Grustave Hart on the Ist of June. Complainant said he and defendant were playing a game at cards when a quarrel arose, and the latter struck him in the face. A witness named Jacob Harris gave similar evidence to that of the previous witness. The Magistrate considered the case a very trifling one, and fined defendant 10s, complainant to pay his own costs.