RESIDENT MAGISTHATES COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 222, 26 July 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTHATES COURT.

[BEFORE D. S. WABDELL, ESQ., R.M.] MASTERTON, FRIDAY. M, Caselberg v W. Cullen.—Debt £5 Judgment for amount and costs. Same vG, Spackmail.—Debt £4 8d Judgment for amount and costs. Same v Joseph Renall.— Debt £3 4s 10 Judgment confessed. W. Ferry v W, Morgan,—Debt £ll 10s, Judgment for £l7los and costs, Same v F. Groves.—Debt £5 Gs 3d, Judgment confessed. Same vA. Hartford.—Debt £lllos lc Judgment for amount and costs.

Same v W. Jones.—Debt £2 15s 9d, Judgment for £llss 9d and costs. Same v W. Morgan and W. Jones. - Debt £1 93 sd. Judgment for araounl and costs.

E, Feist v R. Allen.—Judgment Summons £6 19* 6d. Order made.

M. Oaselberg vL, Tozzi.—Debt £l4 Is 6d. Adjourned. G. Heron vG. Spackman.—Debt £6 Bs. Judgment for amount and costs. Same vR, Jacques,—Debt £4 14s Cd. Judgment for amount and costs,

John Gibbs v G. Traes.—-Debfc £8 10s. Judgment confessed. J. G, Ingram v W. Evensen,—Breach of Borough By-laws, Fined 5s and costs. Same v F. Brake,—Same, No appearance, Same v W. H. Bowry.—Same. Fined 5s and costs. Same v Farquhar. -Same.—No appearance. T. Telford v E: Meredith.—Breach of Scab Act. Withdrawn,

[Before H. S. Warclell, Esq., R.M., and A. W. Ranall, and R. Langdon, Esqs., J.P.s], Sunkel v Murtagh.—Charge of threatening to shoot with a ravolver on the 23rd inst, Mr Bunny appeared for the prosecutor, and called Frederick Sunkel, a laborer on th» Upper Plain, who deposed that he saw defendant in Mrs Tait's house on the 22nd July in the evening, Saw defendant there

sitting 011 a chair, whistling. A man sitting by him handed him a pistol, and defendant put it in his pocket and said "I am not frightened at the whole lot now." The next morning witness went down to the house again. Defendant said: " The first man that crosses that' fence I will shoot him in the Queen's name," and held the pistol straight towards him and those who wore with him. In answer to the defendant—Was sure that it was a revolver and not tho keys produced. Waldemar Larsen gave oorroborative evidence. He also was certain that a revolver was produced, and not a bunch of keys. Mrs Tait proved that she was lured away by a false message from the house 1 she was living in, and in her absence Murtagh took possession of it. She heard him threaten to shoot at the men who were helping her. He also threatened to kill her. The witness was subjected to an able cross-examination by Murtagh, who elicited the fact that she had taken up an axe to him, and might have bitten him on the arm when she regained possession of the house and he was for a second time making his way in. The case so far was favorable to the accused, but a turn was given in the other direction by the witness calling J. Culvert who turned out to be the man that lured Mrs Tait from the house, and who conclusively proved the existence of a revolver. The prisoner was remanded till this morning when he was sentenced to one months imprisonment with hard labor.