RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq, R.M.)

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq, R.M.)

DRUNK. John Shean and John M'Fee were punished ' in the usual manner for this offence. THREATENING LANGUAGE. Charles McCarthy was charged with using threatening language towards William Blandford on Monday last. ~ Defendant pleaded not guilty, and was repr£# sented by Mr. Buckley. • , . William- Blandford deposed that on Monday evening, last he was sitting, at tea .with his ! family, when defendant went in; md rushed at him ; .witness rose up .with Ms knife and fork j in his hand; .'defendant asked witness to go I outside, which he did, but when he got out he hid himself, because,,he was afraid; defendant then went away, anoT witness went to bed; at a later hour, witness' father told him that defendant was prowling round, and witness got out of bed, and bid behind a hedge; witness heard defendant ask whether his wife was there, and say, " I'll smash your brains and her's too ;" defendant then went away, and witness again retired; to rest;, defendant was his brother-in-law; witness never threatened to stab defendants ..; - . . . James Blandford deposed that defendantmade a fearful rush at prosecutor, and his threats and imprecations were horrible to listen to,; he said he would "do for Bill" (prosecutor); defendant and his wife frequently quarreled, but the latter did not often go to her mother's house ; prosecutor did not threaten defendant. James Wilton stated that he heard defendant threaten to smash everything in Blandford's house, and say further that if anybody interfered with him he would "smash them too. Walter Wilton gave similar evidence.^ Maria Smith deposed that on Monday evening defendant's wife went to her house and asked protection from her husband's violence; she heard defendant say he would put a knife into somebody. William Blandford was then charged with threatening Charles M'Carthy.. r .- ,-. Charles M'Carthy deposed that on Monday night he went to defendant's house and asked for his wife, when defendant took up a knife ; •witness said/^lf you use a knife to me I'll knock your brains out;", the whole o£ der fondant's family then tackled him and tore the clothes off his back; he had no intention to knock anybody's brains out. His Worship said he would dismiss the last case, but in the 'first' there was distinct evidence that threatening language had been used, and defendant, Charles M'Cartliy, would be bound over to keep the peace for three months, in his own recognizance of £20 and two sureties of £10 each. THE BENCH ON " UNDERDONE T4B AT." His Worship then called James Blandford, the father of Mrs. McCarthy, and addressed him thus : — A case came before me yesterday in which Mrs. M'Carthy applied for a protection order, and I adjourned it for a week in the hope that the parties might come to terms and' make it up; 'The case was in fact a weak one. There .appears* certainly to have been some violence Used on one occasion, and from the evidence before me it appears that the defendant ..originally received provocation front his wife; 1 who, like many other young wives, does not seem to know much about cooking. She seems to under-cook the meat. Now, under-cooking is apt to produce indigestion, and indigestion is apt to produce a hasty temper, and consequently McCarthy may have been driven to drink and hastiness of temper by the indigestion produced by his wife's bad cooking. It strikes me that if you were to advise your daughter to do the cooking better, and pay % little more attention to her husband, they might "get on much better. - - Mr. Blandford promised to communicate whit his daughter and departed.