RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 345, 8 September 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, Septembeb 7. (Before J. Giles, Esq. E.M.) DBTjNKEFNESS. Michael M'Cormick, John White, Patrick Hennessey charged with being drunk, paid the usual penalty. ASSAULT. Itobert Mee, charged with having assaulted Henry Wilson, was discharged as the prosecutor did not appear. EMBEZZLEMENT. James Derlysline was charged with having on the 3rd of September embezzled the sum of 14s. 6d., the property of his employer John Lewis of Charleston. Detective Lambert, said he arrested the prisoner on the previous night, on information given by the prosecutor Lewis on a charge of embezzlement. Prisoner neither denied or admitted the truth of the charge. Prosecutor signed the charge sheet in prisoners presence. The prisoner was then remanded to Charleston. BBEAKINO WINDOWS. Thomas M'Grath admitted having broken the windows of Isabella Newton on the 3rd inst, at Addison's Flat, tho damage of which was laid at £3. Complainant said that the defendant and another man came to her house about one o'clock in the morning, on the 3rd. He called for drinks, and after taking them, refused to pay for them. Defendant had asked two other men who were there to drink, and when he refused to pay a quarrel arose. Defendant went out and complainant, saw him pick up a stone, and directly afterwards he threw it through the window, and ran away. Tbe window would cost £3 to repair. Defendant said that he was assaulted in the bar, and that the man who did it was pushed into a room, and he was turned out. He was very excited and might have broken the window. He was very sorry for it if he had done so.

ihe Magistrate ordered defendant to pay £3 and eusts, or in default to be imprisoned, for three weeks with bard labor.