RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 209, 7 September 1880, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

+ This Dat. (Before Mr. Edward Shaw, R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Charleß Watson, for a first offence, was discharged with a reprimand. OBSCENITY. William Johnstone, a grey-bearded man, was charged with having used obscene language in Tory-street at an early hour this morning. It was stated that the defendant went to the honse of his son-in-law at three o'clock this morning, and " kicked up a row," making use of disgusting language. Defendant said he came out to this colony about 12 months ago, at the request of his son-in-law, who promised to comfort him in his old age. He soon discovered that he was not a welcome addition to his son-in-law's household, and latterly had taken to playing the violin in the public streets. He was fined ss, in default 21 hours' imprisonment. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Charles Sweeney, charged with cruelly illtreating a horse on the 3rd in&t., by working

it While in an unsound condition, pleaded not Armit deposed that while ho -jtap on duty in Willis-street, he saw a horse attempting to draw a load of wood. lh« animal was crippled, and was not in a fit condition to be at work. It was being driven by.a, lad WedPeroj^wer, who.isjn the >_ employment 6f theaetefiaiMW. William Sweeney, for the defence, said the animal was in good conaitKm.wsieii.it JeWtho stable that day, but it met with an accident whibTttlwabled ife.-.t- - -- »«RBnrwvnxsaii^ ».° Defendant was fined 5s and ooets— 2ls in all. Edward Hughes, & ola Jofeiide*, w*# * charged with having, on the 3rd Hißt., stolen the sum of £&, from the .person of James Mowatt. 34r, Ktihexbert appeared for the prisoner. Superintendent James Apphed for »>re^ r mand, on the ground that the prosecutor haa . not turned up. Mr. Fitzherbert pbjeoted, and succeeded in extracting from the Superintendent an admission that the ease was ft " weak one." He contended that as' .thft prosecutor did not appear, the infdrmHtton 1 ought to* bet dismissed. : His Worship Baid that if the prosecutor wished to lay a fresh information, he could do so ; the present one would be dismissed. Hughes was next charged with being an idle and disorderly person and having no lawful visible means of support. Louis Gerahaw deposol that he lived next door to the prisoner, who kept a house of ill-fame, which was a great nuisance to the neighborhood. Edward Banks, storekeeper, and his wife gave similar testimony. Detective Bonjamin deposed that when ho visited the house he found in a canister on | the kitohen mantelpiece a box of false dioo and two penny pieces, one having "heads' " on both sides, arid the other having tyMjf " tails." When, arrested, the prisoner- said these articles were in the houso at tha time ho engaged it. Superintendent James mentioned that,; > since 1875 the prisoner had been conviotod 01 i a number of offence, including larceny^ assault, breach of the peace, robbery wjeth violence, broaching cargo, and sly-grog selling. Tho prisoner said ho belongod to tho Seamen's Union, which was bound to support him. He would now be at work if it wero not for the faot that there waß a strike on at present. His Worship decided to remand the prisoner for fourteen days, in order to give him a ohanco of clearing out of this part of tho colony, where he is too well known.