RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

Evening Post, Volume XII, Issue 20, 23 July 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

j Inspector Atchison at this stage applied I for a remand. I Mr. Allan objected. He wished the lodger Burgess, who was sent for the police, to be examined before he had had an opportunity of communicating ¦with the prose- j cutrix. j Inspector Atchison said the case bad as- j suined a more serious aspect than at first, and he must press for a remand, in order that he might have time to complete his case. Probably he should lay a further information for an indictable offence. The Bench remanded the prisoners until i Monday next, but admitted them bail in ' their own recognizances for £100, with one surety for a like amount.' .There were no civil cases.

I (Before J. Dransheld, Esq., and R. J. Duncan, Esq., J.P.s) ! drunk. ! William Christy, John Shannon, and James Smith, charged with drunkenness, were dismissed with a caution. DESEBTTOX. Thomas Farrell, charged with deserting | from the ship Hannibal, was remauded for ' a week. [ VIOLENT ASSAULT. | William Robinson and Charle3 King were charged with committing a violent | assault on Sarah Harry. i Mr. Gordon Allan defended Robinson. Sarah Harry, the prosecutrix, whose face ! bore numerous tokens of the violence to | which she had been subject, being severely bruised and cut, and decorated with a pair of remarkably black eyes, stated that she | was sitting by the fire about one o'clock last Sunday morning, when the prisoners knocked at the door, and demanded admittance ; she refused, saying it was too late ; the demand was repeated, and at length she opened the d_oor, and told them again it was too late, and she could not admit them ; they then rushed at her, seized her by the hair and throat, and flung her out of the door into the mud ; she told a lodger named Burgess, who was lying on the sofa in the roum, to go for the police ; prisoners then seized her again by the hair and throat ; she caught up a. poker in self-defence, and struck at them ; they then struck her several times, knocked her down, kicked her, and attempted other violence, one endeavoring to hold her down for the other ; she became insensible, and did not know what happened further until she found Dr. Harding examining her injuries.