RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume XII, Issue 1485, 13 August 1867, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

i Lyttbltok—AugUßt2l2. [Before Wmi Donald; Esq,, E.M.] p Wilham Jones, master of the Meteor, was i fought up in charged with assault- ; ing a police constable on the evening of Fridajr las£, the 9th instant. Wm. Williß deposed—-1 am a .constable in',... ,; Lyttelton. On Friday night last I was on duty (in uniform) on Norwich quay. I bcflß^ a nurabor of-men about seven making tt noistf, <• I told them to go on -board their ship. Ona; , of them Baid he supposed they could go l when they liked. They walked as.far as the I Canterbury hotel corner, when; Jones-stepped f out of the crowd and said, he was the master-; . of the Meteor. I told him I wished he would take bis men on board, and that ho could not ; t stop there making, a.'noise. Ho then struck ; 3 mc on the nose. 3 Thomas Crawford deposed to seeing the row. The captain of Meteor came and ! r asked what the _<row, was about; ho then } placed his hands oh the constable's shoulders. 3 Witness said he 1 isw blood on the policeman . afterwards,* but did not soo tho blow Rtruplf on account of the crowd.... The..constable then . walked up Oxford street. I : By-Sergeant-Baker—The blow was struck before the constable .walked sup the street. It 3 was by the corner of tlie Canterbury hotel. 3 The .prisoners, *aid., he. ,did not < remember 5 striking the constable. He remembered the f 'constable coming down to steps at the r wharf, and knocking him (prisoner) down. Jas. Lewis, mate of 'th' 6 deposed--j I was present when the row occurred. Tha i- policeman came up and told us to go-on boards . and used a foul expression. Tbe oapSßtn j" came up and ,said, " Let's go and talk it over quietly." I "went down to the steps j the ( policeman came down there, and struck tha r captain on the nose, and knocked him dowel Constable Willis, in answer to the Bensh, f distinctly denied having made use of tha . offensive expression imputed, to him, or ony« t thing of the kind. When ho struck tho , accused he (the accused) was. rushing at biro. He paw Lewis on the occasion. [ The Bench remarked that it was evident > that accused did assault the constable, though , witnesses had tried to throw a stigma on tlie t constable, which the Bench, did not beliovo in. \ Tho constable had been in tlie force for a very long time, and no' complaint had ever been ! made against bim. In consideration of tho i- .prisoner baring, been locked up since Saturday t the Bench would not deal severely with him ; t he was therefore fined 40s. i — McNair was fined 10a for being drunk . and, incapable on the night of Saturday, tha . 10th instant., . I Samuel Bamford, aged sixteen, who had , previously been before the Court, and William ( ( Rodgere,; aged eleven years, were brought lip in custody, charged with being in an uhoc* cupied house in London street, and annoying foot passengers. by throwing mud and other ' rubbish. - Mibhael Quinn, a constable, deposed—' That between nine and ten p.m. on Saturday, tha r 10th t ,.ho { waa informed that a) number df hoys were in ah unoccupied house in, London annoying, passengers, bjv : throwing *m'ndi &c. Witness went and searched the house, and caught the two boys present; two more hoys escaped through tho window. He did not See the boys throw any tiling, and -wS» only4old they had done so. He saw a quantity of mud under the windows*' Sergeant Baker described the conduct of these and other hoys as being a great nuisance Both boys said they had permission to go into the hxmte, and Bamford said ; they were . pelting other boys outside. ' • * The Resident Magistrate lectured them both on their conduct, and said that if era* they appeared' before him again he shoma certainly have them severely punished. His Worship, after giving them »omegood advice," in consideration of their having been in con* finement for forty-eight hourr, dismissed them.