POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2606, 24 August 1878, Page 3

POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

(Before R. C. Barstow, Esq., R.M.) "Erin, my Country."—William Callighan was charged with being intoxicatad last night in Quaen-street.—Constable Keley saw the man staggering along Queenstreet, and attracting a crowd by singing, " Dear Harp of my Country, in Darkness I Found Thee." Seeing the state he was in, he took him into custody.—William, with a beaming smile on his . countenance, said he " had a drap or so, hut nothing much." Sub-Inspector Pardy said that Mr Calligahn never would own to being drunk.— His Worship said he had seen Callaghan in an unsteady state, and persuaded him to go home. —Fined 5s and costs. , A Forged Cheque. —William Tidmarsh, alias Ross, was brought up on a charge of uttering a forged cheque for £5, on the Bank of New South Wales, purporting to be signed by Messrs Island, with intent to defraud Mr John Jenkins, of Newmarket.— Sub-Inspector Pardy said that the ■witnesses in this case, were unable to identity the prisoner as the man who uttered the cheque. He had little doubt himself, but under the circumstances, he would ask to withdraw the prosecution.-The prisoner was discharged.' A Similar Charge.—The case of John Thomas Young, charged with attempting to defraud Mr Isaac Levy, and Mr Little, by means of forged orders, was postponed until Monday next. Wedded Life.—Ralph Harris, labourer, of Panmure, appeared in answer to a charge of ill-treating his wife, who applied for a protection order.—Mr J, B. Russell appeared for defendant.—His Worship said according to representations made to him this was a very sad case of ill-treatment on the part of Harris.—Catherine Mary Harris deposed that she had been subjected for the last two years to a course of much ill-treatment. Her husband invariably locked her into the bedroom; kept either a knife or a tomahowk by the bedside. Did not know why. she went in fear. The nurse who. attended her could testify to the ill-treatment she had received a little while before her last baby was born.—To Mr Russell r I w.as left inside the house like a prisoner. My mother always took my part. She slept with me. Harris wanted fo turn her out. He threatened to scald the children. I want to be separated from my husband, and support for his children. Margaret Gillally, mother of Mrs Harris, deposed to seeing Hams striking her, and on another occasion he threw a cup at her head, and had threatened to knock her brains out. Constable Moar could testify of this.—Wm. Harris, brother of defendant, deposed that he once saw a little unpleasantness between his brother and his wife. She would not take her "grub" (laughter), and went out of doors. His brother fetched her in. Did not Bee him beat her. He lived by the toll-house, opposite hia brother. —Mr Russell addressed the Court, and urged that the statements of the mother and daughter, differed materially were very much exaggerated, and not corroborated. Why were not Constable Moar and the other witnesses brought forward ? His Worship said the case was to have been taken at Onehunga on Wednesday last, and it was not certain that the case would have come on to-day in this Court.—Mr Russell said he would ask that defendant might be heard. If the wife desired a separation, the husband was quite willing that she should go, and he would take the elder child and she should protect the younger. - The wife,., he was informed, would come to rip terms, excepting a separation. 'He wquld 5 "suggest therefore that she should', -be left^ to Nature's resources; by 'and by nature, would reassert her rights; and the swomajx-would learn that the tongue when".properly controlled, might be a very useful member- —His, Worship said the.wife should live Wjth her husband if possible, there was a ihovse for her, and food for her children, ; and .-thatf was her proper place- He hoped'that/defendant had learnt a lesson by the. trouble' andjexpense he had been put to, and hi 'saWjnoviteaspn for granting an order, of fe'eparatiod.., s..He should advise them to shake hands'ahd be friends again. \,> .■'"' ■'%.•' ■ I This Avas all the .business. r ■