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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9007, 21 January 1895, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL..

CHRIBTCHURCS. Saturday, January JL9. \ (Before R. Beethanu'Esq., S.M.f # , Drunkenness. —For this offence Isabella " • Lee was fined £1, or, in default, forty-eight, . boura , imprisonment with hard labour* A Rowdy. Cabman.—-Edward Chamber-"' lain was charged with beting drank while, in charge of a horse anil cab; with using obscene language in" a public place -f with resisting the police: and with/assaulting one JB , . T. ,Main, who had come to the assistance of the police. Ift appeared that on Friday afternoon, in High street, the accused, who was in an unfit state to have charge of hie horse and vehicle, was seen by Constable O'Grady,. who, with Constable Bridgeman, under'; took to. arrest him. .He at one* assailed the officer with a torrent of bad language and resisted violently. Main cam* " to the assistance of the police and was at one* assaulted by the accused, who kicked himuifl savagely chewed bis thumb. There warn * great crowd of onlookers,. and after much trouble accused was conveyed to the. lock up. •Hβ waa no.v fined 5a for being drank.■•, and £5 for assaulting Main, half the fine t?» go to the latter. He was also sentenced to two months' imprisonment for the obscene language, and one month for resisting the police. ■ • ' Wipe Dbsbrtiost—Cbas. H» Stratford, for having deserted his- wife, leaving bee without means, was ordered to pay her £1 per week, and to tiad sureties' for "com- • pliance with the order. ...