RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 464, 24 October 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

'J'HIO UA\. (Ujforc G. Suufter and T. A. Clowes Kgqi., J.P'g. A-S.xLLT. David Kinmar i- e dcd guilty to having assail t «l Annie I r wn, wife of t.i.-oigu iiroun, h to ki:'per, Weston, yesteday. Mr v ' •. c-agher npj eared .or the pr secut on, and ca led tin: prosecutrix iu order to ihiiw th..- nau.c of the oU'ence. Annie Brown deposed that the prisoner was at her tiusha'td's luvel y s.e;day. !*he was iu another i&cz of the house, and heard a noUc in the bar > v he went into the liar an.l saw the piisoner and another man quarrelling. Mie called her hu band to r move the other man, which he did. She told tie pii-oner to go away quietly and i.ot make a disiiirbanee The prisoner had a knife in his hand, and wanted to fight her husband. Sue told her husband to leave the bar, and after he ha I done so wit* ess asked prisoner to go away quiet y. Tlie [iiisoaer then nia.lj u-e of i-a<l language towaros her, and en lied her filthy names. \Vimes- th n said she woiil.l stti s.e him with some, hing if he repeated tho names. He did so, and witness th;ew a lemonade bottln a:, hi i , but it did not sirike him. She afterwards wi-nt outsi'le to pick up the bottle. The prisoner th n th ew so nul.-ug: b tones at h r, one of winch struck her on the lelt elbow. The wound mil cted was so bad that a doctor had t» b,; sent for. She was still unable to use her a. in, which was very much bruised. Some further evidciv c having bcci taken, the prisoner was lined L2, with the alternative of six day*' iinpiisonmjut.