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BOROUGH MAGISTRATES COURT, I SATURDAY. JI I. 6th, IS-IS. Before Charles Hughes and T. C. Jones, Esq. 11m:1\: AX 1) ".lAt'K," NOT JOHN. • A horse dealer named John Davies, who said he was christened Jack," not John, and. was an Eltcsmerc man hut lived at Oswestry, was charged by P.C. Robert Hughes with being drunk and incapable in Hope-street at 11 o'clock the previous evening, and was dis- charged on paying the amount of his main- tenance inthe bridewell.  '.N i p MOM»AY.—Before the Mayor, J. C. Owen, Esq., J. Beirne, Esq.. ex-Mayor, T. C. Jones, Esq., Edward Tench, Esq., and Dr. Eyton- Jones. UM.FT KNSE'J DOCS. Mr Murta, supervisor,summoned the follow- ing persons for having unlicensed dogs in their possession :—George Meredith, George Beckett, Isaac Williams, Edward Perry, William Broad, and Joseph Wardle. The do- fendants were each fined 111 the- mitigated penalty of 23s. ALLEPED ASSAULT. 1 I- Elizabeth Jones was charged by Alartlia Jones with assaulting her OIl the previous Thursday week by striking her several times in the face. Defendant said the complainant struck the first blow, and called a witness in support of her statement. Jealousy appears to have been the cause of the quarrel, and the magistrates, who seemed to think it was a case of six of one and half-a-doxcn of the other, ordered both parties to he bound over in the sum of 1: 10 to keep the peace for ,;j X months. Luke Heficran. an old offender, was charged by P.O. McLeod with being drunk on Satur- day night.—Dr Eytoll Jones suggested that he was a fit subject for a new Act of Parlia- ment providing for habitual drunkards.— Fined 10s Gll and 3s Gd costs. -T-)itN-i(I Evans, or Brymbo, was charged with a like lIifcnce on Friday night, proved by P.C. Tanner. Fined 3s, and costs 3s (id.—Catherine Williams, being drunk and riotous 011 Saturday night in Pentrefelin. P.C. Raudlo Cardcn was the prose- cut-or. Fined Is, and fid costs, or seven day: —Morris Jones was charged by P.C. Cor- bett v. -tli assaulting bini at llhos, 011 Saturday night, Sent to Ruthin for three mouths.—Ann Dutton was brought up in custody by P.C C.rbutt charged with drunkenness 011 Saturday ni'-htj This delinquent was taken to the police station twice, and the first time, throngh the great consideration of Sergeant Jones, was allowed to go.—Fined tn(I p but as she had not any money at all she went to spend the proverbial seven days at the other end of the county. A PICKPOCKET. Margaret Jones <i.!ias Ellen Jones clids Iar- garet Smith, was charged by Margaret Wynne with picking her pocket, on Thursday last.— Prosecutrix said that she was purchasing some goods in the green market, when she felt prisoner's hand. She put her hand in her Packet anil foninl the prisoner'* hand also there. She missed two shillings, and the money was found on prisoner. A policeman was by and she at once gave the woman into custody.—I'.C, Dobson proved that he re- ceived the prisoner, and added that he had suspicions of her before she was charged.— Prisoner stoutly denied the charge, and stated she was a Chester woman.—However, she was sent to "do" three calendar months. THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. ) David Jones was then charged witlf at- tempting to commit suicide on Tuesday morn- ing.—In our last week's issue we gave a de- tailed account of the sad affair, and that state- ment was corroborated before the Bench.— Samuel Jones said he beard the groaning, and after looking a bout he went into the talent." There he saw the prisoner hanging by the neck. Avitilout a moment's delay he took him down. He had a rope tied in a noose round his neck, had his hands tied behind him bv means of a sill and had a cloth tied round his legs. —John Simons, who wa's called after the lait witness, got prisoner down on the floor, and he untied the legs, and both between them undid the rope from the I neck. — Dr. Evan;, Bryn-issa House, said that he was called, and found the prisoner quite black in the face. He was so near death that it took three hours to recover consciousness by means of restoratives. He could assign no cause except lowncss of spirits, the result of his discharge from the army through an in- jured leg.Dr. Eyton-Jones then gave cor- roborati ve scientific evidence. Prisoner's mother was caMed in, and sin said there never had been lunacy 011 either .side of the family. Prisoner was then formally remanded till Thursday in order that he mi^ht go before tile county magistrates. 'I' I)' CI f. 1 l'"E:UAY.- .>¿tore s.!arles r tllE' DRUNKKNNESS, &r. Thomas Murray, Pentref'im. was charged by P.C. Corbett with beinjr drunk and disor- • derly in Brook-street, on the previous evening. Complainant said he had giv.-n Murray a chance to go home, but the latter became very violent, and struck him in the mouth till it bled profusely. P. C. Cardcn corroborated complainant's Statement as to the riotous con- duet of the defendant, who was remanded until Mondav. ALI.El.KD LAIiOrNY. Catherine Price, a respectable looking y..un^ woman in the service of a Mrs Arthur, Bl:11c Vue, was brought up on a stolen a bundle of w earing apparel, the pro- perty of her mistress. P.C. "Cardcn said he was sent lor to the prosecutor's house on tho previous evening and informed that certain articles belonging to her were missing, the prosecutrix stating that she had found certain small articles belonging to her in the prisoner's pocket, and that a bundle w hich she had left in the house when she had gone out some time previously was still missing. Witness then went to the prisoner's house and asked her for the bundle she had taken from 1hs Arthur's. Prisoner replied that it was "at the gate, and on proceeding to the gate house, witness found the bundle produced which the woman at the gate told him had been brought there by a little girl, who asked that it might be left there for the servant from Mrs Arthur's. Sergt. Dutton said the prisoner was a sister to the woman who had stolen the wearing apparel from Messrs Peters and Rowland' some little time ago, and the girl, who appeared to feel her position acutely, stated, in reply to Mr Charles Hughcs, that her parents lived at Pentre Bias, Mincra. The prisoner was ulti- mately remanded till Monday, Mr Hughes re- marking that he would accept satisfactory bail for her appearance. WEDNESDAY.—Before T. C. J..nes, Esq. A I'Ai K OF l'i>EKTKi;s. Edward Evans, slater, Wrexham, was charged by Inspector Lindsay, with being a deserter from the Royal Artillery. The In- spector said the prisoner was apprehended 011 the 26th January in Wrexham as a deserter and was handed over to his regiment. The police had subsequently received a descriptive return stating that Evans had again deserted, and he had also been gazetted. On the pre- vious day (Tuesday) complainant saw the prisonerin the town but, the latter endeavoured to make off. Complainant however f dlowed him and ultimately found him in a closet in Bank-street, with a sword in his hand, threat- ening to put it through any body who came in to him. He then began thrusting the s-word through the slates in the roof of the closet and complainant prepared to mount the closet and fix a board on which to stand so as to escape the sword-thrusts. The prisoner then ap- peared to recognise the Inspector's voice, and on the latter promising that no one should hurt him Evans came quietly out after stick- ing the sword in the roof, where the complain- ant found it between the slates. 111 lcnly to the magistrate, complainant said the prisoner had the sword from a bugler on the militia staff, having taken it out of the scabbard to fence with in fun," the bugler thinking Evans would return it in a few minutes, in- stead of which lie made off with it altogether. The bugler had asked complainant for the sword, without which lie dared not appear on parade, and he had therefore given it up to him. John Roberts, a groom, residing in Crescent-place, was charged by P. C. Robert Hughes with being a deserterfrom the Shrews- bury Army Reserve. Complainant said he found the defendant creating a disturbance in the street, and was told that he was a deserter. The prisoners, who admitted the charges against them, were ordered to he detained in custody until sent for by an escort, the magis- trates awarding the Inspector and P. C. Hughes a reward of 20s. each. >•

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