RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
This Day. (Before A. Chetham-Strode, Esq., R.M.) drunkenness. William Bond, charged with this offence, was di-charged. ASSAULT. Thomas Purtell was charged by William Bond, the defendant in the previous case, with having assaulted him. The comp ainant stated that yesterday evening he was going to the Australasian hotel in Maelaggan street and when near there he met the prisoner, and asked him the way to the hotel. The prisoner seized him by the throat, and another man kr ocked him down aud kicked him. He could not swear to the prisoner. The constable who arrested him stated that Bond, when he saw him, was lying in the street bleeding, and the prisoner and the other man were standing near him, Both men denied the assault to the constable He then brought all the three to the lock up. and Bond identified the prisoner who assaulted him. Prisoner was discharged, the Magistrate remarking that the evidence was insufficient to maintain the charge. THEFT, Jane Johanna Wallis, aged 16, was charged with stealing a towel and other small articles of clothing from the Australasian Hotel, Maclaggan street. Mr Hutton, the prosecutor, staled that the girl had been nurse girl for some time, and from information he had received, he gave her in charge to the police. The constable who had her in charge, on arriving at the station, found in her posses-ion the articles produced. Sergeant major Moore stated that when he arrested the prisoner she said, “I took those things. Tht towels were dirty. I wash.nl them, and thought I had a right to them. The brush (clothes bush) I found in the yard.” Pri oner sa d that if she was let off this time, she would not do the like again. She also said that Mrs Hutton’s girl gave her the things. The Magistrate
sent her to gaol for four days, directing that she should be kept in a separate room, as be did not wish that she should be con* taminated by being mixed with the characters confined in the gaol.
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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1940, 24 July 1869, Page 2
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346RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1940, 24 July 1869, Page 2
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