RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

(Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M., W. Marten, Esq., J.P., and G. Moore, Esq., J.P.) DISTURBANCE AT THE THEATRE. William Robinson, Williamßryan Wood, W. E. Coleman, and Robert Heath, were charged with being drunk and disorderly and creating a disturbance in the Theatre Royal. The prisoners pleaded " partly guilty." William Thomas Locke Travers stated that he was at the theatre last night, when the prisoners, who were present, conducted themselves in a disgraceful manner, shouting disgusting remarks to the occupants of the dress circle ; a woman was with them who behaved as badly as they, and whom they frequently kissed and behaved with in a highly improper manner ; witness went for the police and gave them in charge. By the prisoners— You did not interrupt the performance ; your misconduct was during the intervals. George Darrell and David Rankin corroborated this statement. The Bench fined the prisoners 40s each; in default, 4 days imprisonment with hard labour. REFUSING DUTY. Henry Sullivan, Erasmus Jacobsen, Charles Vandyker, Edward Metcalf, and Frederick Collins were charged with refusing duty on board the barque Canny Scot. Captain Bartlett stated that he had refused to allow the prisoners to go ashore in consequence of their haying got drunk when ashore the previous night ; on this they insisted on going to see a magistrate, and refused to work until they had done so. The prisoners said they thought they had a right to go ashore at night if they chose when the ship was in port. They promised to return to duty if let off. The Bench dismissed them with a caution, and of dered them to be sent on board. "a wee drop." Annie Parker was charged with drunkenness. The prisoner admitted she had had "a wee drop," but denied that she was drunk. Fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment. A virago. Sarah Kent was charged with drunkenness, and also with malicious injury to property. ' She pleaded not guilty. The affair apparently was a neighbors' quarrel with a Mrs. Bromley, who accused defendant with " busting" a door, and smashing various articles of crockery. It seemed, however, that the ownership of the said property was open to some dispute, and the amount of actual damage ultimately was proved to be not more than 4s, the rest of the broken things being the prisoner's own property, which she had damaged in her frenzy of rage. She stoutly denied being drunk, and retorted the accusation on the prosecutrix, asserting that that lady was drunk on Christmas Eve ("you know you was !"), and that her daughter, who M r as a Good Templar, was drunk too ! She was sure she wasn't drunk ; she had had nothing to eat, only some one gave her a shilling and she bought some candles and bread. The prosecutrix declared that not only was the defendant drunk, but when she looked under her bed she found two more bottles of beer there. ("Aren't you ashamed of that beer, now ?") Prisoner — Didn't I sell them things to you? Prosecutrix — Didn't I pay you for 'em? The Bench asked the police if they knew anything about the prisoner. Sergeant Monaghan gave her a very bad character. She had been brought up and cautioned several times. The Bench fined her 20s, or 48 hours' imprisonment, for the drunkenness, and sent her to prison for a month with hard labor for the wilful damage, beside ordering her to pay 4s costs. LUNACY. John Godber, a suspected lunatic, was remanded for a week. CIVIL CASES. There were six civil cases of no irablic interest.