POLICE COURT.-This Day.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1689, 17 July 1875, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-This Day.

(Before Johi Cosgrave, Esq., J.P.) LUSI AND LUNACY. John Marrigar was charged with being drunk, but not uswering to the orderly's call, forfeited hi bail. John Flood, who wore a sad and gim countenance, was fined 5s for the same ffence. David Cleary, this being his second offence within a few days, was fined 10s ; nd John McLeod, a hale stout fellow, wit! more money than wit, was sentenced to sev< i days' imprisonment, this being his third ojence of drunkenness within a fortnight. j fOM JONES. Thomas Joneslalias the " Foundling," but who did not ajswer, except in name, the muscular hero ofiFielding's celebrated novel, was charged wit] being an habitual drunkard, and with havinjjno visible, lawful means of employment, j Prisoner pleaded guilty, but implored the Bench to allow Jim his liberty, as he wanted to go away by he mail. Three month' imprisonment with hard labor. I " THB risT ROSE OF SUMMER," Mary Orr, Jias Rose, was brought up under the Vgrancy Act charged with drunkenness aiff with having no visible lawful means of saport. The prisonei who bore traces of former good looks, pladed guilty. The prisonei was found last night lying among the locks near the Grammar School in a wild condition in company with iieves and persons of bad character, whjlook to their heels on seeing the figure ofponstable Gillies approaching them, but tfe woman wag left helpless behind. [ r Sergeant-Mior Pardy informed the Bench tha| the miseible creature was brought up i few days ai on a charge of drunkenness »nd vagrancy when she expressed a wish to bin her hus and at Riverhead. On her jromising to o at once by the Gemini the ■ 3ourt dischai ed her. She immediately got Irnnk, and h 1 been drinking ever since. The Bench onsidered that freedom was a ! urse to the wunan, and ordered her removal j o -the custojy of Captain Eyre at Mount , Men for thr* months. On reachig her cell the unfortunate i reature comjenced to sing Moore's plaintive lelody, "T| last Rose of Summer." ' \] This was a| the business. J