THE COURTS.—TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 6761, 28 November 1884, Page 2

THE COURTS.—TO-DAY.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Before E. H. Carew, Esq., R.M.) Judgment was given, with costs, by default, in the following cases : City Corporation v. E. Pyrke, claim L 6 2s 6d, on a dishonored bill (Mr Sinclair for plaintiffs); ■Ofcago Daily Times' Company (for whom Mr Sinclair appeared) v. J. M'Gregor, Ll4 Ks 6d ; J. C. Burman v. J. Stenhouse, L2O 9j lid (Mr Galloway for plaintiff). J. Drake v. G. Guyton.—Claim, L2O 2s Bd, wages due. Mr Macdonald appeared for plaintiff; Mr Solomon for defendant. After evidence on both sides had been taken at some length, Mr Macdonald elected to take a non-suit. —Plaintiff non-suited accordingly. CITY POLICE COURT. (Before Messrs Logan and J.P. Jones, J.P.s.) Drunkenness.—For this offence Daniel Weir, James Armstrong, John Hall, William Kidston, and George Bishop were all fined sb, or twenty-eight hours' imprisonment; Robert Miller, Michael Hogan, and JcJtn Mayne, 10s, with the alternative of fortyeight hours'. Vagrancv.— Annie Manning was charged with drunkenness and with having no lawful means of support. Constable Christie proved both charges. The accused had been staying in a shed in Maclaggan street latterly, having been turned out of the place which she had ocoupied. She was continually prowling about the streets, and complaints had repeatedly been made to the police as to her conduct.— Sergeant Bcvin stated that he had known the accused for a number of years as a prostitute. So far as he knew she had had no lawful means of support since her husband left her many years ago.— Accused: He died ten years ago.—Sergeant Bevin: He had to leave her on account of her bad conduct.—Accused : Ob, no ; he left me to better himself.—Several previous convictions against the accused having been recorded, she was fined 53, with the alternative of twentyfour hours' imprisonment, for drunkenness; and on the more serious charge was sentenced to three calendar months' imprisonment, with hard labor.

(Before MessrsJ. Logan, H. Gonrley, and J.

P. Jones, J.P.s.)

Charge of Stabbing. Malhiae HUlborend, a German sailor, was charged on remand with unlawfully wounding Frank Dobroveskei with a sheath knife on board the schooner Da Capo on the 6th inst. Mr Sinclair appeared for the accused, ~Prosecutor, a Bailor (whose evidence was interpreted by Mr Hamaan), stated that he was aboard the brig Wave about three weeks ago. He remembered being taken to the Hospital. Prior to being taken to the Hospital he was slightly under the influence of drink. About | eight o'clock on the evening in question he want aboard the barquentine Da Capo, then lying at the «ross-wharf. He asked the crew whether they were all German. One man with a full beard told him they were all English. Witness then gave them bad answers, and called them names. Then two men jumped on him, and one hit him on the eye. They then turned him out of the forecastle. Later witness went aboard again, but ho could not tell the time—about an hour after tho first time. Then a young man came and asked him what he wanted there. Witness told him his hat. The man referred to was a young man and gave him his hat, and witnoss wont away. Afterwards he again went on board the Da Capo, and saw a man sittiDg on a chest with a knife in his hand. Witness believed accused was the man, but could tot swear to it, The cap produced was the Bame as that worn by the man he was speaking of. Witness, after seeing the man sitting on the chest in the forecastle of the ship, went towards him ; but before he spoke to the man the latter jumped off the chest and struck him in the left breast with a knife. Witness saw blood, and was conscious until he fell down. When he regained consciousness he found that he had been taken to the Hospital. He had been an inmate of the Hospital ever since, and would have to return to it to-day. To Mr Sinclair: One of his shipmates went with him when ho went on board the Da Capo the third time. Kennedy had not been urging him to "have it out" with the sailor with whom he had beon quarrelling. He did not know that Kennedy was with him till he was in the forecastle. Sergeant Slattery stated that at three minutes to eleven on the night of the 6th inßt. he was informed that a man had been stabbed on board the barquentine Da Capo. On proceeding there he found tho prosecutor bleeding from a wound on his left breaßt. He lay quite unconscious. Witness made inquiries aa tc who committed the offence, and prisoner was pointed out as the man. On being charged in the usual manner prisoner said: "We were fighting." On making search in tho forecastle witness found the shrath-kviife produced. The prisoner said : " That'll my knife."--Pi isoupr reserved his defeuce, aud wua committed for trial,