IN CHIEF JUSTICE PUNCH'S COURT of FINAL REVIEW.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 32, 22 April 1878, Page 2

IN CHIEF JUSTICE PUNCH'S COURT of FINAL REVIEW.

(With Chiof .T,ustico i*iinc|i*B eomplimpnts ! ' 'to.Mjf'WiUUmPallonDrjrjint.)) 1 piu'of JjUßtico Punch on tflicjng lii'fj float, remarked that it was with sorrow ho ppr» coirpd suojt increasing, ijUusungp of thp Qjieon'* iSuglish. Hp 'w.afl jjjjad^ tosoo ll^ftfc his friend Mf Byrnnt wan trying to put a slop to this sort of crimo ou tho other sido of thp Atlantic, and ho was dptot-mjod; if ho could, to nrush it ou this side. \flf4lhV out further profaoo ho, would npw t take tho first oaso i on tho day^'s list. Miflfl Lavipia J^nkinfion (U), dpsprjljpd as a uovoiiflt, vvns cbnrgcd, with ropoatod nttpoka v on her own langiingo, X^r tho prosecution it waajprored ihiitthoprisonor attliobarhnd frequpntly uftodsuph oxIprossions aa thp following : r-(J), '.Hjßr 'luxurious mnfiSoß of Roldpa hair, glinted in tho raoonboama like nn nuroolo nround tho brows of ft mpliuoypl saint ;,'. (2j 'A swift fluddonlight broke, fpom her lurid oyos liko tho IJRlitpinp; from n Hurampr «ky ;,*. (fi) ' A dark shadow, whiah marked ] his Italian blood, mantlod oyor.tho olonn cut foaturc» ;' (4). * Who tawny mpaiptnoho j jd'r'opppd hpavijy on tlje oruol lips, wloso honoy poison had lurod, '— — Ohipf Jjustioo Biinoh would not trouble Mr Toby, 0,0., tpprpopod, Ilad. tho prisoner any* th'in^ fcp say for horaojffr Tho prisoncijj snid thp:,pubtic liked hor stylo. Thp Cb/io JufltWCtVnoh was sorry, lor tho public, but he ottnsidorod suoh a ploa wns in fact nn aggravation of the crijno. If tho public liko poiiion t)iat would not oxouao lh,o Brinyiilprs and, Bprgais. JDpspito tho prifionors sc^i ho fplt it a duty to inflfot as hofttf a pijpißbment'M tho lnw, permit tod. T,ho sontonpp, was that Hio prisoner bo eondpmi)pd to tjiphard, work of roadipjr her own novplfi. fpr tho spaop of throo oalondur, months, Thp prisonor, who peomod, oyofwholmpd, at thp sovority of t)io sontp t np«i was rpmpyod. froiathpdook in a fainting condition. Ponny A. Lynnpr , (37), dosoribod.as a joiirnnljot, was ohnrgod with rppoatod. offoncoa ofthpsamp.kipd, Mr. Toby, Q. 0,, remarked, that ( tho, proypoqtipn roli'od upon ono npntcnop, which, with the Qourt'a porroifißipn, ho woujd, road, -Up; m^st statp thaj; during tho last summpr a phimtiiojjj, took firo in, tho hpusp., of ono Jpnps, n corn eha.Kllpr, whilo tho ftiraily worp at, tea. This was ihq, pMßOjjpr's ao : count ;— '.Ybatorday aftornoon ovjr, worthy fellow citizen, Mr Jpnoo, whoso mission in ljfq is to purvoy tho poldon grain tp tho, humblo houapholdfi of tho poor, w,as enjoying tl|p repose of,. h,is own vina and I fig'troo in th,o bosom, of his fumily, Tho, urn waj) hissipg on thp hospitable board, nii(l,tjio fragrant, odour diffused through (lip npartraontj cloarly iudjoutpd tho prosonep of tho cup that ehoors but not mo« briatos, w^tcn ttuddonly ; thp. dorpriag

•olomont ', Tho .Tudgq pororaptorily fltop,ppd \\\o c^Bo, and asked tho prisoner, \r (10 had any^iing to say. P. A. Lynor, rppiit!(^\hat; ho lia,d to liyo, and that ho was paid by l,ho length of \\\ .« c^opy,.— .CU«ef .Tfustiop Punch said tl\at w^s no bi^sirmsi of his. Jjfo must put tho pr\sonor on short allowanco of fliimsjr, for somo t\mo, at least, by sontonoing him \o % flosqribo, all fj^es, accidents, murdors, n.nd sqoh other oyonti as eomp under, his notiop for tho onsuhig. flvo years in as short and simplp lang^ge as poss/blc. Thp. p^isonpr y^as taken out of Court, boggling ha.rd-for ft shorter 10,rm,. JE\ahxn Glondpivor \y-itpl» Bj)liy.nx Aurora (33^, d^soribod, as a sporting prophet wns charged vjfil}h a similar. oC|bnoo. f Jfbo, prisoner, vjaa in tho babil; o( cal,lin^ a, good horso a, l > cli,nl^orV,.hp wouljd. oxpijefls his fnvorablo opinion by, torn\ing him, a '/Iyer* his unfnvorablp opinion, by terming him a'mijg.'. When a person had lost his monpytho prisoner would call him tyrokc' an apt of cheating ho would,o.all,a '.ramp. Of thp, cnormiti ( ps of suplij phrases as • fly J^its lf stjmding, on volvpt 'and 'real mm Mip would, not flponlf-Tp"' o^ J| us !^ c 0 iPn'nph said, tfm was a bnd caso and he f«H#«|B'duty,Jtoja^ojin, o^flmnlo ■of l^irn ljowoyor pninful it migift bo, , Tho prjsonoP would, bo bound, ov,or to follow, his businoos throughout tho, entiro, tor.nof tl»o no^t raoing Benson, and, to, invest his money on his own propheeios. ,' I am ruined, my lord, I am ruinod.' ' ThiP opnqludcd. tho business of the sitting— but a, long ljst of similar cases, wo rogrpttp flny, rprnain tf> bo, djisposod, of.— Punch.