POLICE COURT.-Thursday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 321, 19 January 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.- Thursday.

[Before J. Naughton, G. Goldsboro', and W. T,

Buckland, Esqs., Justices.]

Drunk and Disorderly.—Thos. Cavanagh was fined 20s and costs, or to be imprisoned 48 hours.

Vagrancy.—Ellen McLean was charged with having no lawful visible means of support. The woman said she had been obliged to leave her husband, on account of ill treatment, and that she had been in service till last week. She had been frequently convicted. Ihe Bench said she ought to call on her husband to show cause why ho should not support her, and suggested that the police should bring her case before the Relieving Officer. Threatening Language.— Mary Doran was charged by W. Doran with threatening to take his life. She pleaded guilty, and was ordered to find surety to keep the peace for six menths.-- Thomas Shawfwas charged with having used threatening language towards Lewis Kelly.—Mr. Joy for the complainant, Mr. McGregor for the defence. — Lewis Kelly, living at the Critei'ion Dining-roomi, deposed that Shaw met him on the wharf, and said that he would warm his ears for him. He had struck him before at the dining-rooms, and been discharged by the projDrietor.— Cross-examined by Mr. McGregor.—Frederick Sharp corroborated previous evidence and showed previous fighting between them.— Dismissed, each party paying his own costs. Assault.—Mary Ann Kelly was charged with having assaulted Ellen Dougherty, by strikng her over the head with a broomstick. Both were very old women, and acted as counsel in their own ease.—Complainant deposed that on Tuesday last, about two o'clock, prisoner, who is her next door neighbour in Chancery-street, struck her on the head, and threatened to take her life. She returned with a bill-hook, aud hammered the door.— Mary Ann Carrigan, grand-daughter of the complainant, corroborated previous evidence. — For the defence, Eliza Price proved that they were as bad one as the other. The progress of the case exhibited the warmth of the rela lations existing between the residents in Chancery-street, and the case was very properly decided by the Bench, ordering both the women to give security in £10 each to keep the peace for six months. Both thanked the Bench for the award, and on retiring, the scene was almost repeated outside the Court.