MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 175, 30 December 1874, Page 2

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHEISTCHUKCH. Wednesday, December 30. (Before G. L. Mellish, Esq, E.M., and A. Lean, Esq, J.P.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Minnie Edwards, for drunkenness, was fined 20s, and Mary Cunningham dismissed with a caution. LEAVING A RAILWAY CARRIAGE WHILE IN MOTION. John Warren was charged with this offence. The porter stated that as the 4.15 train was leaving the Christchurch platform for the South yesterday, he noticed the accused put his legs out of the carriage, and afterwards drop out altogether. When he saw what accused was doing, he whistled to the guard, who stopped the train. Accused was then given into custody. The accused, in defence, said that he had got into the wrong train, and did not find out his mistake until the train had started. Fined 10s. VIOLENT ASSAULT. W. B. Haldine was charged on remand with violently assaulting Jane Campbell. Mrs Campbell stated that she kept a boarding house in Durnam street, On the 21st of December prisoner both struck and kicked her violently. From the treatment she received she had been confined to bed since, and attended to by a medical man. She was still very weak, and suffering from the effects of the assault. Dr Hoadley stated that he was called in to attend Mrs Campbell on the 22nd of the month. She was suffering from severe nervous prostration, and was bruised in several places over her body. Believed the injuries to have been caused by violent ill-treat-ment. The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done, Mrs Campbell had always been very kind to him. His Worship told the prisoner that he had been guilty of a most unprovoked and brutal assault, so far as he could see without any cause beyond getting beastly drunk, and then venting his spite on a defenceless woman. The justice of the case would not be met by a line, and he would mark his strong sense of the prisoner's conduct by sending him to gaol for two months with hard labor. LYTTELTON. Tuesday, December 28. [Before W. Donald, Esq., R.M., and H. E. Webb, Esq.] DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. John M"Donald was charged with this offence, and fined 10s ; and was al-o ordered to pay £2 for damage to the officer's uniform. John Johnson was also charged with this offence, and dismissed with a caution.