Resident Magistrate's Court

Southland Times, Issue 4412, 30 August 1882, Page 3

Resident Magistrate's Court

y M6nMt, 28th Aug. ' (Before H. McCulloch, Esq., R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. '" '' s - ' .■ =-•■ Three men were charged : -.witfc* being ■ drunk and disorderly. Of these one was convicted and discharged, having been in Custody from Saturday ; the others. were fined 10s each. ~ , ..7, „ IMPUDENT LARCENY. 7 7 ; ('.-, 1 -il'.A-y'y >-•■■< -'.., ; :.:.i. ■..■■■ :;. _.■ «|. • ' J/ohn Henry Sutherland, a man of good parte, now a debauchee, loafer, and thief, was charged ' - wiffi having stolen a watch and chain from -'"one"HenryrW-hceler, In-Dee-street, on-gOth ■*•:• April 'last* ;^lt;appeaped that, after ; puratfd; ; guard -at* Mr Pinmfteflo %Met*; ; Sj^wlaml, whapled poverty, and^ajtsappljed' with &tily' l W' > ffl i dinner ty Wheeler,

Shortly after parting from -^^accused he found that the watch had been taken from his pocket. In cross-examination accused: tried to extract an admission from Wbeeler that he was drunk and : gave him the Watch. , This was denied. —^ Constable Buchanan deposed to tho arrest of. accused ■'at Blackmbnt statiou on the 24th August. He was cook there, and after some equivocation ho prod uc-d the watch from a place of 7cohcealment ; i^Seve ; ral^yp*re^ convictions having^^e'n'pnt^in^th^ police, sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard J abor was passed. ] X William and Mary Baldwin, from North Invercargill, appeared to answer an adjourned charge Of using indecent language ;t^re|withothe^ rFarlfiggpf^asse^bylo-p jthl »A«gust. JThl^%,Wnel ilrlkl prosecution then taken having been supiplemented, Mr Rattray, for accused, put j'them severally in the witness box, when jthey denied the charge;; Baldwin asserting [.that lie was only recitiDg a bit of " Macibeth" for the entertainment of some jfriends.^ The j^barge was held proved ;against| Bii]{{wm| and bjjng^a jfecond 'offence of ''the he--was ■ fined £3 ; with £1 Bs, costs of Court. CHARGE OF ASSAULT. Richard Cocks v.~Henry Robson, was an action for assault alleged to have been committed at Nightcaps township on 13th ; August. Mr Russell was for plaintiff, and iMr^Reade for defendant. The evidence,. ; was fconflicting, ,.-and? |not .suggestive of prudence' on- either side; AfYer •hearing-it! the Court dismissed the information on the ground that the complainant had provoked the assault, by using irritating and bad language. He„w_§ig also cast in defendant's costs — £3 6s. NORTH INVERCARGILL BYE LAWS. Several residents, in Jthi^.-rbprough were prosecuted and s fihed*^f6V ! cattle" 1 trespass;