STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2128, 16 February 1897, Page 2

STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa, Monday, Feb 15. Before A. I. MoGbegob and A. H; WestENBA, ESQS., J.'sP. ASSAULT AND OBSOnNE LANGUAGE. William R»e was charged witti using obscene language and assaulting Caroline Murphy at Osain's Bay on Feb. 12'h. Accused plesded guilly to both charge*, and the Bench decided to bear the cvi Jenoe before giving judgnnei t. Caroline Mmphy, servant at Mr Hainee', 'in Friday, Feb. 12 b Baw accused at hi* and on Hil' road ef'erwarde tiR used the foilowiog ohsopiia language. (Read by and ceitifi-ed.) Accused thiew witness down on th« rund, pnfc his km q on her cheet and hit* hand on her throat. Ht ri-t?r died him a coward, and he re - md anoonget a lot of men swearing and ltogbing. liy eooti(»e^—You did übp the language referred to. I did not osH you a bandytoggeH fullow, end sey you hasi buiterclesr out With your swag.'. I Mary Anno Murphy, m-tw .if cyst(ilninant. domestic cervunt at Okainn, c i<l I liftt" when necuspd ueed the bad language, ehe told ber Meter to bit him witH a pieoe of woodj shaped like a bit, ebe 1 ad in hn hand, and it was then he

*ie«ealtfd her in the manner described by her eUt-r. Witness three-tensd to hit hiuj wiili the bet, and he-then', let her ri->t-Tgo. Accused Boid all he did free to try to take thn bat from Carolina Morphy and -be wlippr-d and fell. Hβ never put bin knei on her client or his band on her throat.

j> \V.i'lbcp, of Okein's, also deponed to th« bad languugo,,

DrtftyHent enirl Caroline M'irpliy ran of him wi'h the bat and he tried 10 take it away from her, and she slipped and fell down, nod be left her. Hβ W»b walking aw y from the ftirle when Cero'ine Mdrphy called out ' Nijrenr, nigger, poll the rigger,' nliuding tj him and that provoked I icn and he used trie langoege co'iiplsiohd of. Hβ cou'd cull witnesses to prove hn f)i) throw Caroline Murphy dnwn hut '»)'}' '»iid t.-> take the bat nwny I'rnirt her. -. -

T'i* B'-nch fiieriiHPed th« eps for BfHiil', bit eaid a ibuet bs put (o the Uee of the obscene language, which was becoming far too common Hβ would be nentinced to coven days' impfieonmet't at Lyitelton gaol witb hard labour.