RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4280, 8 December 1874, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

(Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., E.M.) Monday, December 7. drunkenness. John Cambvcy was fined 205., and ordered to pay 20s. damages, with the alternative of seven clays' imprisonment with hard labor for drunkenness and assaulting a constable. James Sheehan was fined 20s. or forty-eight hours for drunkenness and exposure. Henry Pagan was fined 20s. or forty-eight hours, for being drunk and resisting the police. VAGRANCY. Mary Boutwell, charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor. X LUNATIC. David Swabbly was charged by Captain Wheeler of the steamer Taranaki with being a lunatic. Captain Wheeler deposed that the prisoner had been a passenger from Picton in his vessel. About two o'clock that morning he had caused alarm by his strange conduct. He could not speak English, being a foreigner. His Worship remanded the case to admit of Swabbly's being examined by medical men. INDECENCY. John Blackwall was brought up charged with this offence. C. Meech deposed that prisoner had been annoying people by his shameful conduct. Witness had observed him on many occasions. Several complaints had been made about him. He did not show any si"<« J of drink. John Boyce gave corroborate e evidence. The prisoner pleaded that he was drunk, and was not aware of what he was doing. His Worship, in sentencing the prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labor, said that it was one of the worst cases that had been before him for some time. Drunkenness was no defence. CARD SHARPING. Alfred Drake, Solomon Collins, and William Simpson, surrendered to their bail. Prisoners had been charged on a previous day with having defrauded Henry Williams, a billiardmarker, of £l2, at poker, and the case had been remanded to allow of the production of Williams. Inspector Aitcheson now stated that he had not been able to find Williams, and had no further evidence to offer. The landlord of the house where the game had been played desired, however-, to make a statement.—John Mcintosh, landlord of the NewZealander Hotel, stated that he did not know of the affair until the day after it had happened. He was in bed when the game commenced. He himself had no cards or dice in his house. William 3 and Drake had told him they had produced the cards which were used, and WiUiams remarked that all he wanted was his money back. Had not seen Williams since the summons was served | The case was dismissed. Civil Cases. The Titanic Steel Company sued eight shareholders for calls clue, and got judgment with cost 3 in each case. A few minor cases were dealt with, and the court adjourned.