RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Grey River Argus, Issue 77, 10 July 1866, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

GREYMOUTH? V ' Saturday, July 7. (Before W. H. Revell, Esq., It.M.) -WILFUL MURDEIt. James Wilsoa, (dim James Murray, was charged with the wilfuU murder of George Dobson, on the Grey and Arnold track, on or about the 28th May last. Mr Inspector James said the prisoner had been in custody on another charge, but he now brought him up on the* charge of having murdered George' Dobson. He then detailed the circumstances regarding the finding of the body on the previous day, which were merely a repetition of the evidence given by him at the inquest. " He then asked fora remand, as there were other parties implicated in the murder.; ' " The Magistrate granted the application,. and remanded the prisoner to Hokitika, to Ibe brought up before the Resident 'Magistrate there, oh Monday the 15th inst „. Disorderly Conduct, Larceny &c— John Buckley was charged with disorderly conduct in the streets, and as he. had been brought up "on a' similar charge on the pre-vions-day, lie was fined L 3. The same prisoner was also charged with stealing four Ll-notes, the property of Rachael Bridport, on Friday last It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had gone into a house kept by the complainant in Richmond Quay and ts'ied for a drink, which he got but did not pay for. Later in the day he called with other two men and asked for three drinks. The complainant would not give them, as the prisoner had not paid for the last, but he said he would pay and he got "them. *He was leaving the house without paying, when he was called back for the money. He then took a L5-note out of his pocket, and, holding it in his hand, asked the complainant to take the drinks out of that and give him the change. Shelaid four Ll-notes down on the counter, when- the prisoner made a snatch at them, and,she also got hold of them. A struggle -took place between them, when the notes were torn to pieces, and each of them retained some of the pieces. The prisoner then said he would smash everything in the place if the notes were not given to him, and the complainant had to call in assistance to get the prisoner put out. Later in the day the prisoner again attempted to enter the house, a'ul said he would yet*'have the complainant's blood." He was arrested, and the corresponding parts of the notes were found in his possession. It appeared in cross-examina-tion that on the previous day (Thursday) the prisoner had given the complainant a L5note for some purpose or other, and he now said that this was the» L5-note he referred to when he asked for change, and that consequently the four notes which he tore were his own property, but the complainant denied that any reference was made to the first L5-note, and repeated her statement that when he asked for change he pulled a L5-note but of his pocket, but did not place it on the counter. Tfee Magistrate sentenced the prisoner to one month's Imprisonment in Hokitika gaol with hard labor. There Avas another charge against the same prisoner of having made use of threatening language towards Bachael Bridport, whereby she feared that he would do her some grievous bodily harm, and she asked that he might be bound over to keep the peace. The threat made iise of was that mentioned in the last case, when the prisoner said "he would have her blood*." The prisoner was bound over to keep the peace for pix months, himself in L2O, and two sureties of LlO each, and if he could not find the sureties he would be sent to gaol for six months.