RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 155, 5 July 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday, July 3. Cattle Trespass. -••"< James Howieson, for allowing three horses to be at large : iii . the streets, was fined 15s. and costs; vW. Q_man,/Gr. Edwards, and. W; R. Cator,: each for allowing / one horse to wander, were fined ss. and costs. Assault.W. R. Cator was charged with assaulting Thomas Pettit. Defehdant,~"whcT admitted "the offence, was fined 10s. and costs. This Day. John Burt was charged with being unlawfully^ ou the. premises, of .Charles Blecher at 11 o'clock last night. '' * Prisoner admitted that he was in the house, but that he was drunk, 1 ; and; did not know what he was doing. Charles ; Blecher, sworn : Hearing a noise in the house last night,- 1 got upi and; looked about, and found prisoner lying on the floor just inside*: the back. door. I asked what Lr was, do.ing,, and he said that a tall fellow had shoved him. in. - He pretended to be drunk, but I believe he : ■* |was quite. sober.. l sent my wife for a. aiid she /brought Constable Shaw,. who apprehended. him,. „._, ... _-.- .'., , y P. ~ r Cs Shaw sworn .pi" I was; sent for ' late last uieht to go to Blecher's house. I . went and Blecher, gave t prisoner, into my , ; ? = ; charge. Prisoner -was sober- -at; the time. a jJL - His* Worship said : that ; as this 'iwas r not 1/ '/the prisoner's first appe^rance : /befbre him ! | } ihe: sho uliFsenten_e''liim ;ib months' 1 -imprisonment with hard labor. '• '*■»" ' ' '■-*• • !■■--■ . ' ■ ...-■■" ■ I ■— V. „!_______■____»-. J •',.