RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume XI, Issue 1411, 17 May 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oheistchuhch —May 16. [Before C. C. Bowen, Esq., R.M.] ! Peter M'Donald, for being drunk and wilfully destroying property, was fined 10s ; in default to be locked up for twenty-four hours, | with hard labor. T. Jenkins and G. S. Simpson were find 5s each; and Isaac Lambert, G. S. Simpson, Joseph Felton, Margaret Cotton, James Holt, Michael Craddock, and Jessie Prestige, were fined 10s each, for breaches of the Cattle Trespass Ordinance. Archibald Hammill and James Molloy were fined 20s each for being the owners of unregistered dogs. Wm. Mealing, James Meldrum, and Peter Cunningham were fined 10a each, under the Police Ordinance, for obstructing the public thoroughfare. A case ngainst Arthur Jones, under the Police Ordinance, for furious riding on the public Btreet, was dismissed with a caution. Emtna Craigie, Jane Glass, Patrick Denchey, and one " Joe," alias William Matthews, were charged with fighting in the public street. Emma Craigie had to be taken into custody for being drunk, and could therefore not appear. The case against the other prisoners was heard with the following result: —Jane Glas9, and "Joe," alias Matthews, were dismissed with v caution, it being proved that they had not boen fighting, and Denchey, who had been fighting with a man named Clark, alias the "Brusher" (now in gaol), was fined 20s; in default to be locked up for twenty-four hours. A case against George Haward, under the Vagrant Act, was on the application of Mr Nottidge, solicitor for the defendant, adjourned until Saturday next, at eleven a.m. John King, for not having a light in his lamp at the Eoyal Oak hotel, was fined 20s. Thomas Stout, a licensed cab driver, was fined 10s for having two more persons in his cab than he was allowed by the terms of his license. There were three cases against T. C. Mulling for breaches of the Hackney Carriage Byelaws. Mr Cottrell appeared for the defendant. The first case was dismissed, and in the other two cases, for plying for hire with and unlicensed cab, the defendant was fined 30s in each case. A case against Michael Hamilton, for a breach of the Hackney Carriage Bye-law, viz., not having his name painted on his licensed conveyance, was dismissed with a caution. A case against Henry Steele, at the suit of George Simpson, under the Fraudulent Trustees Act, was withdrawn by leave of the Court. The Resident Magistrate remarked that the complainant ought to be more careful how he laid criminal informations. W. 0 Webb was fined 20s for assaulting Charles at Mr Alport's salt'yards. The tusault was admitted, the defendant stating that the complainant hud called him "no man," and he felt annoyed. The complainant called W. Wilson as a witness. A case, at the suit of Susan Collins against William Collins, her husband, for assault, was withdrawn by leave of the Court. John Leatbani was charged with assaulting Mary Peagram. After hearing the evidence, which was of rather a queslionable character, the Resident Magistrate dismissed the cuse, remarking that any complainant who was in such a beastly state of intoxication as it was proved the complainant in this c.ise was tit the time of the alleged assault, could not expect to be believed in Court. It was a most disgraceful affiir, and he saw no grounds for the present information.