POLICE COURT.-Saturday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 2105, 24 October 1870, Page 3

POLICE COURT.-Saturday.

"BetV. , ? .i.iiiies O"Xeil! a::.: James Naucrhton, I Es-.5., Justices. J Dr.rxsryvr-?. —1.-- , i'i-i Hughes. Michael In-. ".::•; 1 A'-x-mihv _\r.-K-,y. for first of- : fen. ; --. '>,-•■ ii-:eil e.u' ! i ".-. : i::d i-o.<ls, or to be i iir.pris >:.l-i -t heirs wiiii iiard labour. ! Ai-vv'-r.— jri-.-'-is.-l Xei-ian k:is ' with ii:ivi; -j :i?<: n-<■■} hi- wife Mary Xeenau on the iO: : i ir-sr. — Af.-iry .Voetian deposed : I " wen! ir.) i> iu-.vh-v's p:i!)'i:-!unise, and askefl ' bt h:!-"i!i-! to .-•'"••.p.:> !m':ic Found him : S rea:ir t--r:i in <hc f-ice ; iie kicked at me and feli. Somi-tiiiij after, on i;iy i;niii; to ray house. '' hi !!:■■* :ve :a t'ie and inaile use of " bal ian-;:i:u-: e.mjht in. , by the hair of the s head, d? ;■::■■■ ■! ::ie out :im 1 ki.-ke 1 mo before ' a criv.T-.t 01" in- -!i!e : the poH'-e induced liim to s .'0 h.i:i-.e. a:;-.' I a'-o r,-t':n-ne ! tliouLrh -retitly c sfrai i : 1 b i.wjit in -.villi me a ehiid about 11 ' veari 0! 1. The b'ac-k eye whieh I bear and I 3!: ir- of br ii» ? all over my body were cau-r.i bv ijie ku-Uiiij vrhich I received from iiiai. He lia- ofren threatened ° to take my liu', :::id thar he would hang ' for i;:e yet. 1 a-;i utVuid he will take ir.y " life. Oμ info i : i>? htmse. he beat me * Tio-e:it]v, :i.l i',w:e w.-iv pools of blood on the floor. Tin , :-.:M got. thr .io..n- opened, and I I ran out. mi i>m his kii-..iim mi- ajain, the but.!:-? o-->.-it.- -.v:.* ...b;i-.-l to hold him. I ! : nan ■•-.>• - ili'-i-ir..- s-v-r.-ly tVoin the .-trec-ts, and T aim:-". ir:! ; .;e <■; -t ind'on my feet.—Cro~s- a eira-.-lb M-. J.iy, in order'.o show that 1 ] pro-rv.:-ii -.v.is t'ie a-'s-iiiint-. .S:ie admitted '■ harinj f:-:i •-; b:'-k n:id thrown san-l at her " ias!'i::i wii.--n atta.-k.-l bv him.—Constable r O'C .1 ..- 10 hiving s.-en thu- crowd " opn.j-i'e" she !!ibei"!-.ia lfoti-1, und on goina up " he f0.i::.l the parties hid been fighting. ])eien- '' s:it 1 it was a sweep with whom lie had t be?;; /ixht'iisi that had .111. his face. Persuaded " them to !\ome and be at peaee. An hour afterwards was soul for, and s.ims to rieien- r dam's pl.ice, foim Isi large crowd .T.itsidf the ! . 1 dor. Saw the wife, who-e :aee was mutilated '' ar.i her arms . u'. an t covered with blood. " Took hr to ths station, wliere laid the ! information, und went and sot her wounds s dre=«J.—To .Ur. J.,y : [t »as after they got - 1 home that she -n.ist h.ive rrceired the'blaek ? eve. She brought the little gii-1 with her to !' thestarion. I was by the bystimders ' to take the man in cliarc'.-, but could not as I a had Iv.lt v.itnessL'd the assault.— For the ' defenc- , , Jo-eph Star!; (ieposi-d : T am a carpenter, a:id was retur:iin2 from work when the row occurre'i. Saw defendant running awny ° from complainant. Saw her dash his lien i J again-t the brick w;ill; she threw brickbit", c or so like thorn at-him. Saw them no ■* awav wit'u t!iu constable. -Complni ant stated l to the -leuc-h that he had never'done anything i for lifr support, and that she was able to sup- a port herself if left, alone by him, and that it D was ivitli her earnings that lie had always been , gettini; (irunk at Rowley's.—.Sentenced to one a month , < BcaprifOiimefit with hard lahor, and s then to give ~ecuri?.y by two bonds in £25 ' each to keep the peace for liiree months. c The Court til -n rose. '