RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1876, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day.

(Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R-M.) DISORDERLY DOGS. " Schneider " was a dog whose owner was fined a few weeks ago in the local Court for the said "Schneider" having attacked a gentleman in the street, and torn his trousers, the 1 same not being "Schneider's" first offence. •'Schneider's" owner excused himself and "Schneider" by saying that it was not " Schneider " that was to blame, but " Schneider's brudder," a bad dog, which seduced his " brudder," who " vas de best of dogs," into evil ways. This bad dog had since got himself and his owner into trouble. The other day he attacked Mr W. V, Jackson in the rear, and bit him, and his owner, Elizabeth Tollens, was to-day charged with keeping, unmuzzled, a dangerous dog.' Mr. Jackson did not press the charge, as the defendant had said she had given the dog away, and that in future it would not be at large, and the case was withdrawn on the defendant paying costs. " Schneider's " owner was an interested spectator of the proceedings which had come so soon in retribution for the seductive influence of •' Schneider's brudder." DISORDERLY MEN. A seaman on board the recently arrived ship Waikato, named George Sorgaty, was brought up in a very bruisedstate, of which he had himself been the cause by a fiercely violent onslaught on a shipmate, a constable, the clerk to the police, a citizen who had assisted, and any living object that had come within reach of his fists or feet. He first became demonstrative and desperate in the Central Hotel, and so much so that the police had to be sent for. Constable Smart caught in him a Tartar, and, though the distance was short, had the greatest difficulty in conveying him to custody. He made his transit across the street on his back, sending constables and civilians flying by the force of his kicks. One civilian disappeared into space, or the indistinguishable mass of the crowd assembled, under the influence of a forcible blow or kick; another kick grazed the nose of Mr. Fraser, of the clerical department of the police, so closely as to suggest to him care in future as to the combination of the duties of clerk and constable ; and Smart had a still closer encounter. The prisoner was fined 40s, with the alternative of seven days' imprisonmentAnother man named Thomas Jones was fined 20s for interfering with Constable Wagland, who had warned him as to his ways when he was developing from the condition of drunk to disorderly. m _______