POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1666, 21 June 1875, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.) SUSCEPTIBLE CREATURES. William Swan was charged with being drunk on Saturday night (second offence). Fined 20s. Joseph McGuinness was also drunk, and fined 20s; Robert Bruce (not oi Bannoekburn), was also fined 20s (second offence). Alexander Graham and John McCullagh forfeited their bail. ELIZA. Now stood Eliza, in a dirty plight, Beneath the clock, For she was drunk last night. Eliza McGinn, an old offender, was charged with drunkenness for the twenty-third time. The woman, who had just come out of gaol,-presented a miserable spectacle to the Court. , , She held down her head, and pleaded guilty. Fined 203.

A ROUGH CUSTOMER. James McDonald was brought up under the Vagrancy Act with having used violent and improper language in Victoria-street on the 21st insfc.

The prisoner said his memory was very bad, he might have used bad language, but did hot remember it, he was drunk and very sorry. , Mr Broham said the prisoner had been convicted on seven previous occasion. Prisoner said he was a sailor, and was occupied in that calling when not in gaol. The Court fined him 40s, or in default 14 days' imprisonment, prisoner preferred the latter alternative and went to prison.

ON THE WOBLTj'S WIDE STAGE.

Charles Clarke, a sharp lad of eight years, was charged with committing a breach of the Naval Training School Act by wandering at large without a proper guardian. Constable Mulville deposed that he saw the lad on Saturday evening, with a number of other boys in Lome-street, letting off fireworks. He took the boy, who was the ringleader, and found that be had neither home nor friends, and that he slept out o' nights, and got his living how he could. His father was a labourer on the Waikato railway. fhe boy expressed a wish to go to the Naval Training School, and was committed for two years, to be brought up in the faith of ths Church of England.

BREACH OF CRIMINAL ACT,

Robert Speers, engineer, was charged with a breach of the Neglected aud Criminal Children's Act, by withdrawing from the Institution his two children, without being regularly discharged, on the 19th instant. Defendant was fined 20s. and costs. "the green."

James Hayes, was summoned by Thomas Heath, 6% a charge of striking him on the head and pummelling him on various parts of the body, on the 12th instant, without either the consent or approval of the said complainant.

Thomas Heath, deposed that he was a labourer, and on the evening of the 12th June, he went into the Star Hotel, Newton, for the purpose of settling a little "business ; he said nothing to defendant, but to his surprise, Hayes came up and dealt him a violent blow on the chest, and then drubbed him on other parts of the body. He was still suffering and under the doctor's hands. Defendant : Was there not harmony in the Star that night, and an Irishman singing the " Wearing of the Green?" Plaintiff: "Did not hear it; by faith, I didn't." Defendant: "Did you not sing out, to the annoyance of the whole house, ' Hurrah for the green ?' " Plaintiff: " By heaven, I didn't." Defendant: "Did you not call me a Protestant rascal, before I chastised you ?"

Plaintiff: "By St. Patrick, no, no." William Adams, a slim young man, with his hair duly oiled and brushed over, saw something of tbe row; heard something about the green ; understood it had reference to the land of O'Connell, but did not know ; he was busy. Heath fell very gently, very gently indeed. Defendant began to make a long speech in his defence, when he was stopped by the Court, who considered the offence proved, and fined defendant 40s. and costs.

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Hezekiah Mann, of Freeman's Bay, was charged with neglecting to contribute towards the support of his wife and six children.

It appeared that Mrs Mann had been subjected to gross ill treatment at the hands of her husband. She was nearly covered with bruises.

Prisoner expressed his willingness to con tribute, but was not in a position to do much, Tke Court ordered him to pay 15a a week, This was all the business.