RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

(Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R«M.) ASSAULT. The charge-sheet contained six separate informations for assault. In one case, in which George Underwood was charged by Henry J Underwood,, the parties failed to appear, as they had done on a previous day, when a similar information was laid. In the other cases John Turner was in one instance tho defendant, and in the other four the informant but he stated to tho Bench that three had been settled out of Court. These were against Frederick Wilkinson, Valentine Samuel Aston and Kate Aston. The fourth was against Ellena Hannnh Parker, who also charged him with assault. The two cases wore heard as cross actions. The evidence of Ellena Hannah Parlftr was that Turner had ordered her off some ground which he alleged belonged to him, and had struck her with a walking stick, inflicting a bruise on her arm. She attacked him in solf defence. She called her brother, V t S. Aston, who had seen blows .pass, and heard Tamer call out "murder," but he could notsayifrho struck first. Her husband, Henry Parker had also seen Turner strike her with a'stick, when she /'went at him." Subsequently Turner threatened to " fight the lot of them/ Turner's statement was that when he went on to some ground that he had leased, Mrs. Parker came up to him, seized him by tho beard, slapped his face, and kicked his legs. To make her release her hold, he struck » her across the arm with his walking stick. She flew at him again, exclaiming "Revenue is sweet," " I'll have your life/ and "If you put any building on this ground, I'll burn it down." He got away from her, but she followed him on to the road, when two of the Armed Constabulary interfered. His evidence was corroborated by Elizabeth Aston, Mrs. Parker's mother, and partially contradicted by her brother, S. A. Aston, who had not jheard the threats alleged to have been made. ' • The grievance between the parties seemed to be that Mrs. Aston lived with Turner, and that he had. as Mrs. Parker said, endeavored to defraud her brothers out of their "birthright." In the witness-box there were mutual recriminations between tho mother and daughter as to their domestic conduct. The Magistrate thought the story told by Turner was much more probable thai* that of Mrs. Parker. If she would leave Turner alone there would be no quarrels or assaults. Possibly he might be living itr peculiar relations with Mrs. Parker's mother, but, considering the age of the parties, it was presumable that it was a purely platonic affection. Ho dismissed the case against Turner, and ordered Mrs. Parker to be bound over to keep tho peace for three months.