POLICE COURT.—Monday.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 193, 22 August 1870, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Monday.

(Before J. Naughton and A. K. Taylor, Esqs., Justices.)

DRUNKENNESS.

A. Chisholm and R. Galloway were each fined ss. and costs, or to be imprisoned for 24 hours with hard labour.

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.

Mary Bedford was charged with this offence. Sergeant MeCafferty deposed to having found her and another woman fighting in the street Prisoner made a long vigorous statement about a certain jacket as the causa belli ; and was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s. and costs, or to be imprisoned 48 hours with hard labor. ASSAULT. James Murray was charged with a violent assault on Peter Hurley, a boy of tender years. Prisoner stated he was drunk, and did not remember what he had done. Peter Hurley deposed : On Friday last I was in Queen-street, near Wakefield-street. I was talking to another boy, and saying nothing to the man, when he struck me on the head with a candlestick, and took me up and " chucked" me down on the kerbstone. I have not been able to get up out of bed since, till Sunday evening last. Frederick Hughes deposed : I am a clerk. I saw the prisoner lift the boy over bis head and throw him down like a tennis ball on the ground. The lad was quite insensible for a long time, and we had difficulty in reviving him.

Airs. Margaret Hurley, tho mother of the child, deposed : On Friday the boy was insensible, and all night through he was calling out, being delirious; on Saturday I made him' stand up and he fell on the ground, saying the ground was going round him ; he had a large lump on the back of the head ; he was able to get up on Sunday. He is not ten years old yet.

The Bench considered this a most aggravated and wanton assault, and sentenced tho prisoner to six months imprisonment with hard labor.

The Court then rose,