RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TOKOMATRIRO.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 353, 1 February 1871, Page 6

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, TOKOMATRIRO.

* < v (Before Mr J. T. Mainland', R.M.) r Wednesday, 25th January, 187 L James Beck was charged by the police with driving a horse and dray on the public road, on Saturday, .21st^ i without having proper control of the same.. No appearance for defendant. • Fijxed 103' and costs. Tw.6 cases-rtWaters v Esler, and M'Laren v. Louden —were adjourned. :\. jßcovssn i v. ■.MfKegg—ln this case Amos M-Eeggvwas charged by Robert Brown with hawing assaulted .Jane Brown, wife of the •-said Rob'eri Brown,- at the Taieri Village, on December..- : The- defendant pleaded not guilty, and . evidence was led.: • - '■■: •■•' : Jane :BroWfl rbeing:aworn, said—-I am the wife, of -Robert Brown,, residing at the Maori Village, Taieri Ferry. I recollect Saturday, , 3lßt Dec. We.had.\been out eeling during the previous i nigh&. -Mrs Palmer .and Mrs ' were with roe. When we got home in the morning we all three went to bed, and [got up between 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon. Mrs Palmer 'then went to the river for water." When she returned we all three went out r and saw M'JKegg's boat cloSe byrcomiug up the -river.-' There were three people in it-r-two men and a boy: ■ We hoi--fpwed. out'some chaff to M>ELegg, and went intosthe house. . A little- after M'Kegg came Into the house latighingj took hold of my arms behind my back.* and pushed me Up against the bed. rl called to Mrs Palmer and Mrs Crane to ; jkake :hhn away. They were all laughing at.usj and Mrs* Palmer came and ' hitiM'Kegg, with a- broom. He then ran after her, caught her" in the garden and had a strugglev-with her, same as with me. Mrs Crane went to Mrs Palmer's assistance and. he caught her in -the same way. Mrs Palmer said she would tell, when M'Kegg replied, "Then you can tell ; I' have served all alike." Cross-examined by Mr M'Kegg —lt is your habit to pass the house with the boat every. Saturday. The house is about 20 yards from the'river. You did not lay hold of.me to hurt me. It was simply a lark amongst us, altogether —three men, three voraen, and four children. . The foregoing evidence was corroborated by Mrs Crane, and several other witnesses. His Worship viewed the matter as a piece of rough play, or, as the witness Brown expressed it,, "a. lark," bat cautioned the -defendant against indulging in larks of the same kind with such parties, as serious consequences sometimes resulted. Case dis- . missed.