POLICE COURT.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1030, 30 January 1879, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

Hamilton, January _8, 1879. (Before Ij. W. Norlli^rqfj;, E*q : , 8.M.) William Patterson, aliaa Alison, alias Key nolds was brought up ou warrant charged with cutting open a tent, and using insulting aud abusive language to the inmates. Defendant plpaded guilty, and stated that tlie ease had been sieltied with complainant out of Court, It appears that on Friday night the wife of a man named Wick and another woman vore sleeping in a tent on the railway liue, and were sta i tied by hearing a mau using violent language outside, and by seeing a knife driven through tha tent. They screamed Iqudly, and assistance beiug obtai"cd, the prisoner was found in the; scrub near tho place. The husband of the woman \yiek, foaring that Patterson would lpavo the district, came into Hauultyu and pbtaiu.d a warrant,

for his appiehoim JU . Patt.er.son wts arrested, and meantime .sq iar<-d the matter with Wick by payiunutof ,1. Thu Court said tliat ifc cO'tld take no notice of the fact that prisoner had .settled the matter with thoeonplainanf. Pihnner had been unoited under a warr-mt, and tho case must bo proceoded with He Btrongly coudernned the c induct of Wick, in attempting to defeat the course of justice, as he had done in seeking to compound an off-nee, which committed ou a public highway Avas not merely an offence againgt a private indivi-kial but one of a publio character, and he only -ogres ted that be had not Wick and his wifo before him in the dock. Prisoner was then sentenced to a Hue of £5 and costs, .£1 IDs, or two months, in -default. The fine was paid.

Wednesday, January 29 Catherine Herdistan. was, on the evidence of Des. Waddington and Carey, proved to be of an unsound mind, aud remanded to the Lunatic Asylum.