POLICE COURT.—This Day.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1202, 29 November 1873, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R,M.)

DRUNKENK ESS.

Mary Walton, a woman of seventy, was fined 10s for this offence, and Edward Burns 10s or 48 hours.

Alice Mills, with dishevelled hair, and who appeared in a state of insanity, was remanded until Monday to ascertain the state of her mind.

Jane Kelly, about fifty, pleaded guilty to the same offence, and was fined 10s.

VAGRANCY,

Ilonora Fowler was charged with being drunk and behaving indecently in Bacon's Lane last evening with intent to provoke a breach of the peace.

She pleaded guilty also to biting a neighbour's arm very severely.

Mi* Broham stated that the woman Fowler was the mother of the miserable children who had been committed to the Home for Destitute Children, and she was reduced to her present deplorable condition through continual drunkenness.

The Court sentenced her to pay a fine of £5, or one month's imprisonment.

David Kelly, was charged with being drunk, dirordur'.y, idle, and a rogue and vagabond.

Prisoner said he was neither a rogue nor a vagabond, but ho took his drops very regularly, and got drunk every day. J3ut if his Worship would look over his offence this time he would become a Good Templar without further delay.

His Worship : You will have to undergo six months' imprisonment with, hard labour, and when the term of your imprisonment expires you will be in a tit condition to became a Good Templar.

WHOLESALE AXD RETAIL.

Henry Kelly, a stern looking fellow, was charged with stealing a shirt, value 4s, from the Greyhound Hotel, on the 26th insi, the property of Charles Sengry ; also, with stealing on the same day, seventeen waistcoats from the shop of Messrs Vaile, drapers, of Queen and Wyndham-streets, value £5, the property of the said firm ; and George Thomas was charged with receiving five of the said waistcoats, knowing them to have been stolen.

Mr Broham conducted the case,

Robert Henry Robinson was examined, and deposed that he was assistant to Messrs Vaile, and that on the 26th he placed seventeen waistcoats by the doorway, and on the following morning, upon enquiries being made by the police he missed the waistcoats. Walter Long, another assistant in the same house, identified the waistcoats as the property of his employers by the tickets and damage marks. The waistcoats were worth £5 10s. Mrs Mary Bates, lodging-house keeper, deposed that the prisoner Kelly occasionally lodged at her house, and that she remembered prisoner and bis companion, Thomas, bringing the waistcoats in on Wednesday. Andrew Heavy, pawnbroker, deposed to prisoner pledging two of the waistcoats at his shop. He suspected they were stolen goods, and accordingly handed them over to the police. : His Worship complimented Mr Heavy on bis conduct, and expressed a wish that all pawnbrokers would act in the same consistent manner.

Prisoners had nothing to say in defence, and were both sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor. Kelly was then charged with stealing » shirt value 4s, but said he knew nothing about it ; he had never seen the shirt before.

Charles Sengry deposed that he was employed at the Greyhound Hotel, that he hung his shirt up in his room, and upon missing it suspected the prisoner, who was frequently loitering about the place. Benjamin Levy, assistantto Mr Neumegen, proved that the accused pawned the shirt for Is Gel, for which he made out the ticket, and paid the money. The Court sentenced Kelly to two months' imprisonment, making together eight months.

X FUGITIVE GIRL. A woman named Carroll, whose children are in St. Mary's Orphanage, appeared^ Court a few days ago with one of 'IP'r:ri7^-ir» who had run away from the 0? H'phauage' complaining that the girl Lad beei'elii7/-usef/' and that she wished to take the G^jildaw// His Worship then directed {that , Broham should make enquiries at t*e Orphanage respecting the charge. Mr Broham stated that he had made enquiries, and learned that the sisters baa treated the child kindly, and the gi»

absconded in consequence of quarrels among the children themselves. He found the Orphanage cleanly and comfortable, and every necessary attention given to the children. He left the child in. the care of the sisterhood.

His Worship was glad that the result of Mr Broham's investigation had proved satisfactory, as he should hare beon sorry had a wrong impression got abroad respecting an institution which was of so much service to the poor.