MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2168, 19 April 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor.) OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS. The following penalties were awarded the persons named for breaches of the byelaws :— W. Haydon, neglecting to keep the entrance to a cellar in good repair—dismissed, he having taken steps to repair it before being summoned ; Alex. Aitkedhead, ill treating a horse by driving it in harness with a sore shoulder, 10s ; Richard Fitzsimons, allowing two calves to wander in Leith street, 5s each ; James M'Ferren, cruelly beating a horse, 10s; James Greig, driving a dray without name and residence, 10s; Freclk. Wain, allowing waste water to run over the footpath in St. Andrew street, dismissed; Captain Muirhead, emptying his closet in Great King street at three o’clock in the afternoon, 10s ; Maurice Joel, obstructing the thoroughfare in George street by placing tanks upon it, 10s ; Walter Harper, destroying the pillars at the Post Office building by kicking them, dismissed ; David Bacon, breaking a horse in in the public street, 10s; William Wright, allowing a horse to wander, dismissed ; Alexander Henderson, leaving his horse and cart unattended, 5s and costs ; William Knox, allowing a horse and dray to stand across a footpath, dismissed ; Michael Moore, allowing three cows to wander in Duke street, 5s each; John Campbell, allowing eleven horses to wander in Union street, 10s each and costs. The hearing of informations against A. Mee, Job Wain, Andrew Hepburn, E. C. Quick, J. E. Hutchison, William Heads, James Pettigrew, James M‘Donald, John Alves, Robert Wilson, and Thomas Little, for allowing waste water to flow over footpaths ; and Benjamin Willoughby, allowing a formed footpath to fall in, was postponed for a week. EOBBEKY FROM THE PERSON. Jane M ‘Leod and Mary Fraser were charged with stealing from the person of F. Blake, a seaman, bank notes to the value of L 5. The short facts of the case as given in evidence were that the prosecutor fell in with M ‘Leod on Sunday night and repeated his visit to her house on Monday. The prisoner Fraser was living with her professedly as servant. While in the house he had a glass of brandy and becoming stupified threw himself on a sofa and fell into a profound sleep ; on awaking he had occasion to use his pockethandkerchief, and feeling for it found it was gone, as well as his pocket-book, which contained about L2S. He enquired of the women about bis lost money, all knowledge of which they denied, although they presented him with his empty pocket-book and handkerchief. He gave them in charge to the police, to whom they professed to have no money, but who, on searching the house, found some L 5 between the mattrass and ticking of one of the beds. A witness named James Chatter saw M Leod take the pocketbook from Blake while he slept, and put something into her bosom. He himself had lost money in the house, but did not consider that bad anything to do with the matter.

They were each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.