POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 635, 24 January 1872, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M

DBUNKENNESS: Two inebriates were disposed of as usual. • OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Mary Doran, for using obscene language in a public place, was ordered to pay £5 and costs, or be imprisoned two months with hard labor. ASSAULT. Andrew Kirkwood was brought up on a warrant, charged with assaulting Anno Kirkwood. It seemed that defendant had been " making a general average" in tho crockery department by throwing plates and dishes at his wife's head. Ordered to find bail —himself in £0, and two bondsmen in £10 each, to keep tho peace for three months. FOHGEEY. A charge against J. 0. Davis for forging a transfer of a share in the Tokatea G.M.C., was adjourned till Tuesday next, defendant's bail being enlarged. LAECENY. Annie Stainson appeared to answer a charge of having stolen a pawnbroker's ticket, value £2 10s, the property of Agnes Coulson. Prosecutrix deposed that she gave defendant some clothes to take care of, and that she had taken the ticket from one of the pockets. Witness had seen defendant with the ticket in her possession. Defendant was " beastly drunk" at the time, and refused to surrender it, and still retained it. His Worship: "Do you ever get drunk P" " How many times a week P" Witness : " Sometimes. I don't know how often." His Worship: " Well, you have a very drunken looking face at all events." Mr Broham, this seems to be a trumpery case. It had better be put off till to-morrow; and let the police make enquiries in the meantime. EEEACHES OF BYE LAWS EELATING TO HACKNEY CAEEIAGES. Alexander Fraser, for standing for hire elsewhere than the place appointed as a

public stand, was discharged on payment of costs and a fine of Is. A. Sayers, for not taking up his station on arrival at the stand, was ordered to pay the costs of the action and a similar fine. D, Quinn, for not moving to a place vacated by a hackney carriage, after its departure from a public stand, was discharged with a caution. All these cases originated frointho fact of one cab driver having pulled into the ranks when the authorized number of cabs was already on the stand. The defendants appeared to have been ignorant of the bye laws, which, however, His worship said they would in all probability take pains to learn after this morning's proceedings. The movements of the cabs seemed rather to puzzle the Court, and perplex the byestanders almost as much as did the evidence in the celebrated case between the two opposing omnibusses on the Karangahape Road, about a twelve month ago.