A BREEZE IN COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 11250, 25 May 1900, Page 4

A BREEZE IN COURT.

( Gnniig the hearing of a case at the Police Coin (. this morning, in which two boys were charged with discharging a revolver to the danger of passers by - Mr E. 15. Cargill, who was silting at counsel's table, spoke to Mr Graham, the magistrate, while Mr Hanlon, counsel for the defence, was cross-examining the principal witness, and then walked up the. stops and sat on the bench alongside the magistrate. Mr Hanlon at once protested, and said he must object to Mr Cargill taking any part in the proceedings, especially after the remark made by Mr Cargill while speaking to the maglslrale. .He heard Mr'Cargill say that Ihe discharging of firearms was a tenib.c nuisance, and he therefore asked that Mr Cargill should leave the bench, or ho would apply for an adjournment. Mr Cargill wished to say that the use,of tileiums by small boys was well known as a terrible nuisance. He himself had had a large number of panes of glass broken through, hoys using firearms. Mr Hanlon : I protest against this sort of thing. Jlr CarsiU : It. is a. public matter which I think I should mention, not for "the sake of doing anything to the boys before, the Court, My daughter was once nearly shot, and one of my servants had a bullet sent dose to her ear. Mi Hanlon : I think after hearing this dissertation from your colleague vour Worship will agree with me that he is not a. proper person to take any part in the deciding of this matter. Therefore I enter my profit against Mr Cargill taking anv part in the proceedings. If he is going to try the case I must ask for an adjournment. Mr Cargill: Don’t talk about, my dissertations. Don't you he impertinent to me. Mr Hanlon : I will not take any impertiiicncc from yon. I know my position at the Bar, and I am not going to put up with any impertinence from anyone, I say vou have no right to take any part in the proceedings. I lodge my protest and ask the magistrate to rule. The Magistrate: Mr Cargill has n0 intention of taking any part in the proceedings. Mr Hanlon : I protest against him takiim _ on the bench, a.nd making use of dissertations. •Mr Cargill: Ton will persist in usintr that word. , Mr Hanlon : Yes. Mr Cargill : I am here in my position ns a. magistrate, and I take the opportunity of mentioning this matter, which is of interest to everybody. Mr Hanlon : I have had enough of this. I ask for an adjournment. The, Magistrate: T de.clinc to grant an adjournment, Mr Cargill asked to come on the bench, and I offered no objection. I never heard the remarks yon referred'to You challenged Mr Cargill’s right, and he replied to it. He will take no further hart in the case. Mr Hanlon : That is to say, your Worship will decide the case alone. The Magistrate : Yes. Mr Hanlon : Very well, ’t hat is all right. On Mr Hanlon opening his defence. Mr Cargill left the bench.