RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 396, 6 November 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thursday, sxil Nov. (Before J. Giles, Esq. R.M.) ASSAULT. A man uamed M'Leod was charged with assaulting Sergeant Williams in the execution of.his duty. Sergeant Williams gave evidenco of the prisoner having struck him about twelvo o'clock the previous night. Mrs Hogan, of the Harp and Shamrock hotel said, the gentleman, (alluding to the prisoner,) cauio into my house about twelve o'clock, and asked for accommodation. Ho was very much under the innuenco of liquor, and refused to go out of the house. I called Sergeant Williams in, and the atter then put him out. The gentleman then struck the Sergeant, and 1 ran and fetched constable Pringle from the camp.

Other witnesses stated that the assault was of a very violent and unprovoked character, and marks of it we.te visible on the sergeant's countmance.

The prisoner was sentenced to a week's imprisonment with hard labour. STEALING-. John Hunter was charged witli stealing a watch, the property of constablo Rooke.

It appeared from the evidence of the prosecute r and other witn: s les, tliat the prisoner received a packet containing the watch in question from constable Rooke, for the purpose of carrying it to Griles' Terrace, and there delivering jt to Mr Harrison, the storekeeper. In place of doing so he had sold the watch to a minor for £l, and a pair of boots valued at other £2, and Rooke afterwards saw the watch in Mr Brace's shop, whither the miner had sent it to be repaired. Being cautioned in the usual way and asked if he had any statement to make, the prisoner entered into a long story, the gist of it being that Rooke had entrusted the watch to him for the purpose of being raffled, or otherwise disposed of, and he had done the best ho could to follow the instructions he had received. He was committed for trial at the next sitting of the District Court, bail being taken for his appearance, himself in £SO, and two sureties of £25 each.