POLICE COURT.-Monday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 413, 8 May 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-Monday.

(Before R. F. Porter and G. P. Pierce, Esqs., Justices.) Drunkenness. — Five drunkards were punished as usual, for first offences. Two failed to answer to their names when called upon, and their bail was forfeited, and a Sandwich Islander was dismissed with a caution. Vagrancy.—Jame3 Bushnell was charged with hr.ving no lawful and visible means' of support, and pleaded not guilty.—Detective Jeffory deposed that prisoner bed been brought to the look-up by a gentleman, who said he had made away with a carpet-bag entrusted to him, which charge he subsequently _ withdrew. P. boner was known to the police, who believed him not (o have any means of support. They bad provided him on several occasions. He was pa engineer, but never appealed to work at his trade. Witness thought bim not right in bis mind. Prisoner was discharged with a caution.—A respectable looking person, named James Ashton, was brought before the Bench, charged with being a suspected person—having beeu found at night on the Queen-street wharf.—Const able Diver stated that he had found him concealed under a sail at the end of the wharf, early on Sunday morning. Prisoner said he had been locked out, and had nowhere to go to.

He apprehended prisoner because several robberies had been committed on the-wharf. —Witness- was severely fcross-examihed by prisoner, and admitted that his attention had been drawn to prisoner by his requesting witness to call his dog away.—The Bench thought tkat no case had been made out, and dismissed the charge.-—Mary Walton was brought up on remand, and again remanded for eight days, to enable the police to make further enquiries into the capability of her som to support her. -uaecext. —Christina Wilson, charged with stealing four cloaks, valued at 255., from JR. Hobbs, draper, pleaded not guilty.—Richard Hobos deposed that the four cloaks now produced were his property. They had been taken from his counter.—Walter Tritt, assistant to !ar,t witness, had served prisoner with some article on Saturday last, and had left her alone in the shop for a short time. She ho,d a loose cloak on, and could bave concealed articl.s under it.—Detective Jeffery deposed taat he had found the stolen articles in pr'soner's possession, and that she had said she nurchosed them at a shop which she could not point out. She afce wards said she had bought them from a woman who had stolen them. —Sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with br".d labour.

TnsFATENrs-G Language.— Emelet Cole wrs chaged by Jearmießu'sell with threatening :o murder her, and terr her limb from limb. Prosecutrix stated that she was in bedily fep.r, and requested that defendant mv;ht be bound over to keep the peace.—Mr. Wyun for defendant, Mr. Joy, L.L.8., for complainant.—Jeannie Russell deposed that about one o'clock on the morning of th« Ist, de erc'm'u erne to the front of her house and called ojo to her, using the v'lest language, and in c e.,;i" to murder her and tear her it b rom limb, es well as -riling her the met opprobrious namc3. Witness was afrrid to go out oj. a.'count of her violence. Comple.'n'.- ns'a h.Zoand wro in witness's house at the t: :.e, ve.r 111. Ke lodged with he .—A. R. iy.oni.Kp -".ve co roborrr.five evidence. He w- cr. m the la -'gXTje w.-; v d(o Mrs. Bagwell and not to HZ. Cole.—Oha,rle ; Hooper, or defence, st-.tr.-d that h.e was a near neightour, and herd all that transpired on the occasion. Defendant used no bad language to complainant, but called on her to turn Mr. Cole or.t and she would tear him from limb to limb.—Eliza, Case, an opposite resident, k_re similar evidence.—Case dismissed, each party to pay her own costs.