RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 152, 10 August 1881, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday, August 8, 1881. '. [Before His Worship, the Major, and G. M. Snelsou, J.P.] OCSCENE tAN'GUAG-E. Anne Fowler, who had been fined upon last Court day, was arrested on Saturday night by Constable Gillespie for m king v c of obscene language m a railway carnage, contrary to the provisions of the P.ibiic Works Act. The prisoner was most violent m her conduct, and it required considerable asstsUince before she could be secured and conveyed to the lock-up. When brought before the Bench on Monday morning she was so puguacious and intemperate m her language, as to necessitate her removal to a cell, the evidence being taken m her absence. She was fined £l and costs, or twentyfour hours hnpiisonmcnt, ASSAULT AND BA.TTERT. The. same prisoner was further charged with maki-ig an unprovoked att;>ck m a railw.iy carriage upon a Maori woman named Mrs Jackson. A'-cused did not deny the assault, but asse.ted it had been caused through the bad language of tbe Native. Eviiieuce, however, was produced which conclusively proved that accused was the aggressor, and a similar penalty was inflicted, both -eutences to be concurrent. OBSTRUCTING TEE POLICE: ' ' James Fowler, the husband of last pnsoner, was charged with obstructing tbe police wb : le the last prison r was' being couveyed to tbe lock-up. As the obstruction was not, however, rf a serious character Const able didjnot wish to press the charge acd the case was dismissed. SIMTLATt CASES. Jarr.cs L.cc r>nd Wil isr.n Lee wero charged upon information with endeavoring to interfere with the arrest of Anne Fowler. . The evidence of Jnmes* Evans, a platelayer on the line, went to show that he had been called upon by tbe police to render assistance m tbe ;irrest of the wo;n?n Fowler, and while doing so he had been assaulted by the pi isoaers The accused denied the charge and pro-' duced a witness name:! Heaton to prove that Evans had been the aggressor. l->ut The Bench considered the charge proven, and fined James L^eten shillings and his brother William five shillings and cosis. ________