RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1118, 24 October 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE COURT.

(Before Joseph Giles. Esq., R.M.) Tuesday, October 2L police CASES. P. J. Bruen charged with drunkenness in the public street was fined, twenty shillings. Kent v. Connelly.—Charge of assault. Ann Connelly was charged by Esther Josephine Kent with having thrown a stone at her, and inflicting a wound on the head. The accused was defended by Mr Shapter. The complainant stated that on the 13th instant, while passing the corner of Bright and Palmerston street, Connnelly, jvho was then the worse for liquor, began abusing her, and lifting a stone threw it at her, and the stone came in contact with her head, iuflicting a wound at the back of the ear. Complainant denied having had any previous quarrel with the accused or any misunderstanding, except that she had objected to Connelly coming to her house.

Charle3 Sibree gave corroborative evidence, having seen the stone thrown, and heard Connelly use brutal language. No witnesses were called for the defence, Connelly stating that one of the parties who had promised to attend had broken his arm, and that " the other lady" was in bed. Counsel pleaded that the evidence given was improbable, the complainant admitting that at the time of the alleged offence she Wore her hair dressed as she then wore it in Court, padded like a boxing glove, and hence no stone could inflict a wound in the place shown, exactly behind her ear. 'J he Court said the story seemed a genuine one, and committed Mrs Connelly to gaol for two months with hard labor. civil, OASES. P. J. Bruen v. Walter LaVette.— Claim for £i< 15s for medical and surgical attendance." Defendant denied indebtedness, pleading that plaintiff had received from him on various occasions several small sums of money and also goods to the full extent of his claim, and that plaintiff had said one account should square the other. Defendant had not filed a set-off, nor did he produce any account of the items given as contrapayments, stating merely that the money and goods were supplied to the plaintiff when he was on the spree, to get him away from the premises, and no record had been kept. Judgment for plaintiff in amount claimed and costs 9a. There we're no cases set down for hearing in the Warden's Court. Tiiuesdat, October 23. (Before J. W. Humphrey Esq., J.P.) Patrick J. Bruen, charged with being drunk in the public streets, and for using obscene language, was for the first offence fined 20s, and for the second 40s, with a warning that on his next appearance under similar circumstances the full penalty of imprisonment would be inflicted, without the alternative of a fine.