POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9337, 30 January 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

POLICE COURT

Friday, Jamaky 2(1.

(liefore Messrs 11. S. Kish and .]. L. Cillies, ,U"s )

DurXKKXNKSs.—For this offence :i tirst offender was convicted and discharged. Oatti.f. YVandkiuxc. — For allowing- cattle to wander at, large William Ilalford was lined 2s (id, William Ackland lisiid, and Jolin Laurenson s±.

Amsivr-. Lan(!l'.vuk. — (ieorge Hendriek, an elderly man. was charged with using abusive lanimage tn KHzabeth ISjernnivist, whereby a breach of tho peace illicit have been occasioned, at South Dunodin, on Sunday las'.—Mr AY. A. Stout appeared for complainant, ami .Mr A. (.'. Hiinlon for defendant, who pleaded nut guilty. -Mr Stout, in opening the ea-^e, said tlr.it the cohielainant lived at .Maria street, South Dunodin. She had recently sutVered from an attack of influenza, and during her illness she had been nursed by the defendant's wife. Un Sunday last she was convalescent, and defendant came to the him-;..' and in.mired if his wife were there. Complainant replied that she w:i-: not. She subsequently ordered accused off the ..remises, and he made use of very had lanKiia.;.: Uav.ihls her. shaking his list in her face I: he had tendered an ap.'h.gy for his conduct th.ve j.iMnecdm.u-s would not have I.lvii taken, but he |.i;i o.'i making this ivj.aratiim until thatmornin- when he sen! h:;r an apoin-y admitting the offence.- Kvidence was tlien called. -My Fish staled that it appeared fn,i,, tin; evidence that the ilefeii.laut practically admitted the offence. - Mr 1 Tallinn said that that was so. The accused would have pleaded guilty, but that he was drunk at the time, and really did not know what language had been used.—Xn further evidence was then called, and accused was lined la, ami costs (2&).