THE COURTS—TO-DAY.

Evening Star, Issue 8483, 7 April 1891, Page 2

THE COURTS—TO-DAY.

CITY POLICE COURT,

(Before Messrs A. Burt and J. H. Morrison, Justices.)

Drunkenness.—One first offender (who did not appear) was fined 10s, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment. Mary Ann Heywood was fined 20s, or fourteen days' imprisonment. Fighting. John Poppleton, a young DJan, admitted behaving in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. The accused and another were fighting in Maclaggan street last evening when a constable arrived on the scene. The accused was locked up, but the other man made off. He is, however, known to the constable, and will be summoned for the offence.— Poppleton was fined 10s, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. Neighbors' Quabbels.— Samuel Brookes, of Anderson Bay, was charged with assaulting Michael O'Heir on the 2nd inst., where{ore complainant asked that defendant be bound over to keep the psace.—There was a cross action in which Brookes charged O'Heir with using abusive language. Mr Thornton appeared tor O'Heir, and Mr Barolay on the other side.—The parties live at Anderson Bay, Brookes being a piggery-keeper and O'Heir a briokmaker. The only independent witness called on either side was Alfred Hall, ranger of the Peninsula Road Board, Rnd his aocount of the affair was that about midnight on Thursday last he was awakened by a loud knock at his door. He got up and found Brookes there. He said that O'Heir's horse was on the road, and asked that it be impounded. Witness said that he was not going to get up and impound cattle at that hour of the night. Brookes then struck witness a blow, and a tussle ensued. They both fell on the ground, and when witness was getting up Brookes tried to kick him on the face. Mrs Brookes had n'iwo bottles of beer in her hands, which she flourished freely, and her husband was under the influence of liquor. After the tasslo witness woke up O'Heir, and then returned to his house and put on his boots. On going out on to the road again he heard Brookes and O'Heir talking loudly together, Brookes called. O'Heir "a ——Fenian." During the alternation Brookes complained that witness in his capacity of poundkeeper would never impound O'Heir's cattle. The Bench fined Srookes 20s and costs, but did not feel called on to bind him over to keep the peace.— The cross-action was dismissed.