POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 589, 29 November 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

Sfßefore W. E. Thomas and H. H. Turton,

">_.■;.,*; Inquires, Just.cos.]; ' ■■■<, .) j Drunkenness. One person, charged with .this otfenr-e forfeited his bail.

', Threatening Language.—R. K. Coulson, alias Walter B. Coulson, was charged, by John Moberley with threatening to take his life.— ■Defendant pleaded not guilty.—Prosecutor deposed that he called on defend ant. in his,> capacity of a Collector, to obtain two months' rent, when Coulson threw a blacking hottle at him and threatened to take his life—Defendant) said that five men* and two wbmen had bie-L in his house all the momitig taking presOripti'ons, and* were quarrelling; One of them threw the bottle o-it of' the Window; as the complainant was passing. answer to the belt fa*defendant described his house as being one to Wliich people resorted who were suffer-1 ing from diseases of a peculiar class." —The Ben' h said that it must be a house <fa very peculiir ch»rncter indeed, ftorn^ defendantown admission, and thought the pwlif© ou^ht to keep a sharp eye on it. —Ordered to find S'oiirity to keep the peace fortiii-ee months, hiniseli in £20 uiid two sureties in £10 each.

Bbraoh o_ Dhstiiute Persons Kelie. ObDlNance -William Bowden wns : charged by Caroline Bell with refusing to support a j child of which he is the fai her.—Defendant: failed to attend, and a^* it appeared he was on the point of sailing for Taranaki, a warrant ! WAS issued for hs apprehehsiOh. '' - l- A£A-'f I : -Ivd'Tfi I'iJuii '. .:, > .. lliliinWA 'Mil oJ vj