MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLII, Issue 4327, 24 December 1874, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

;ICtoIdHURCH., Wednesday, Dbc. 23. ( (Blflke l G. li. Mellish, Isq., E.M.) Thb Court opencd at 7 minutes past 11, - . ; Dbowk ;an> -Biotocb nr a Baiiwat A. Kirby, detective on the railway, saild • • into' 6he|Ohrißtchurch:tfih?,_at he became very rowdy, fie took off his coat 1 : and'vysfj andyrauted-io fight, passOb^^, had to. hold, him down on the mat. Prisoner said ; ho dM nht-remember anything of the ... Aim ,DiaoBRBBi.T. —Wnv Wiwry, 1 amstedby: Constable Barron; ww fined 65.-r- ---‘ ■„ I ni:-.r Orvxn Oab».—Walkerv.Macfarlane.—This. Skfgtktf action for £SO damages for the - byjthft!raefondant... Mi Joyat appeared, for. 1 'the plaint*,’D. ThOmas for tbe deas foUowb: —Miss Walker who lives in Gloucester strew, ~ had two dogs, aSkye terrier and a deerhjMtnq. That the dogs„wera BBizedwith oonvulsiorwon . • »&k»& ; i (defendant on the lawnnear; • - plaintfify Bouw : on 'the 1 morning ' dogs-' ■ x«amß s.H/ her. bf, poisoning Miss' Walker’s dogs.' Theresa > ° ‘ BOkertf * picked up a piecd '’bf ! 'mUttoSn ■ ,‘i -V .Prbfeaapk , . to impregnated with, strychnine, Susan fialpitte', a Servant of defendant's, said timt 'lfm Macfarlane had' shown her a J packet of .poison, which she was cautioned not to touch as it contained poison W. • A.’ Gimderseh;. hdd' ■ ’ been at Mr Bowern’s with his' :■ noticed, that they betrayed .symptoms of r, i him on one. occasion" tbfkt the, had laid - poison, and-' that 'ho abould’ he sorry to See v talhablg dogs killed. .Mr; ;TWlr yetbrintay surgeon, had examined 1 QundersenV dogay and he thought, they ■. 'showed 'strotig' symptoms of Mying' ;beqn ; stryohpme. "r tosWalker’s dogs. and . believed that, they had died from the offects of strychnine. The , de%4am!‘a^}ed.lbit, jte : .(|ii^OT^ i nM'ddwn poispn oh,his own ground or On.'Mi: Bowerri’s - lawn; and that he had not' had:aOy poison in his house. A Valuable d^'Of 'Ms- had 1 alpo- - poisop to Snaan Haipme, or that aay poison j /ktow athci dog# banag, bceß/,given, ;the ' i— 1