POLICE COURT—Saturday.

New Zealander, Volume XXI, Issue 2222, 13 September 1864, Page 5

POLICE COURT— Saturday.

(Before Thos. Beckham, Esq., RJM.)

Three drunkards were fined 20s. and costs, or 48 hours imprisonment. Threatening Language. —George Silvain was charged by Olivia Dormer, with using threatening lan guage to her. Prosecutrix said, I am.- a married woman, my husband is a lunatic, I reside in Grey Street, defendant has been living with me two. years. On the 6th September, we had a quarrel about a girl. Ha threatened to break everything in the house, and leave me so that no one should know me. I' followed him to the Wynyard Hotel, and found him there with a girl of 17. He ill-treated me. He struck me in the public-house. lam afraid of my life. To prisoner: I did offer by your request to take £lO if you would go out of the town. Prisoner was ordered to enter into his own bond for £IOO to be of good behaviour lot three months. Assault.— John Williams was charged With throwing a bone at Frederick Smith, on the 7th September, and inflicting a wound on. his upper lip. —Prosecutor said lam an apprentice in the Smthen Cro*s Office. On the 7th of September last. I was st mding at the door of the second floor office. There being some boys, and three men there. Prisoner was cursing and said, he would fight" any one in the colony. He threw a handful of mud . 1 laughed at him, and he took a bone out of his pocket and threw it at me. It struck me on the lip, nearly cutting it through. I did not molest him, but the way he was going on, made me laugh. To prisoner ; : I did not call you “Cranky Williams.” some of the boys called “ Williams,” but I don’t know who it was.—— Henry Morton said : I am. a printer in the Southern Cross office. I was present on the 7th Sept. I was at work at a window, and my attention whs ca’led by hearing a noise, and I looked out ol the winlow and saw prisoner—he was shouting and throwing his arms about. I saw the boys standing at the door, and I walked down there and saw prisoner throw this bone. It cut his lip, and he had to go over to the hospital and have it sown up. I did not hear the boys call any names. They were laughing at him when the bone was thrown. Sergeant Molloy said : Prisoner had been going about the town at all boars of the night for-the past two months, and how he got his living be did not know. Prisoner was committed foe one month’s hard labour. Charge or Swindling.— Count Alexander Klaprodi was charged by Ewen Cameron with cheating and defrauding him of £lO. Prisoner was remanded..

Monday.

The witnesses in the case heard on Friday, in- which Capt. Bennett was charged with embezzlement, were bonnd over to attend at the Supreme Court. Serious Charge of Assault. — Richard Lloyd was charged with kicking Alexander Turnbull on the 29th August and breaking his leg. Mr. Beveridge for defendant. Alexander Turnbull, a naan of color, said ; I am a pastry cook, residing in. West Queenstreet. I know the prisoner. I recollect Monday, the 29th August. From information T received I went to the house of the prisoner to settle about some rent. As soon as I got in, a military policeman closed the door upon me. Prisoner asked me why I did not deliver up the key of the house. I told him I had been to his place two or thre- times and found both him and his wife drunk, and they refused to take the key from mo, As soon as I said that, Lloyd took me by the neck and got me down. When I got, up I made for the door ; the military policeman got hold of me. [His Worshin said the information ought to have been laid against ti- > military policeman as well, and in all probability ibo Court would order him to stand by the side of the prisoner. He was at all events, if the statement was true, unfit to be a military policeman.] In trying to open the door I was thrown against the table by 'the policeman, when Lloyd kicked me on the leg and broke it. Had it not been for the military policeman I should not have had my leg broken. His Worship here ordered the case to be adjourned for a week and a warrant to be issued against Dennis M'Cann the military policeman. "Charge of Assault. —A charge of assault preferred by Geo. Maule against John Finlay was dismissed. Mr. Beveridge stating that the matter had been nettled out ot Court. The Court then adjourned