MAYOR'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2235, 6 July 1870, Page 2

MAYOR'S COURT.

Tins Day.

(Before I. N. Watt, Esq,, R.M,) DRUNKENNESS. William Pollard, Thomas Edwards, (Peter Chalmers, John M‘Lean, James Gray, and Robert Smith, were each fined ss. Mary Ellis alias Kimberly, was fined 10s, or two days’ imprisonment, and Amelia Gebbie was remanded for eight days. OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS. William Perry for leaving a dray in Market street, and John M‘Master for allowing impure water to flow on to Manor place were each fined 10s and costs. WIVE BEATING. John M'Cubbin, a hawker, was charged witli beating and threatening his wife. According to the complainant’s story her husband was all that he should be when sober, but when drunk ho maltreated her, and ou such occasions had threatened “to be hung for her yet.” On the 4th instant he came home drunk and assaulted her. The defendant’s excuse was that what had happened was nothing more than what occurred in any married man’s family. His wife accused him of immorality, which imputation he resented, and his temper getting the better of his reason had boxed her ears. Tho Magistrate bound him over to keep the peace for throe months, himself in a surety of LID and two sureties of L 5 each. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. Catherine Barnes was charged with this offence on tho information of Mary Jones. The parties reside in Dowling street, and are neighbors. The complainant’s story was corroborated by a witness, and she subsequently stated she could get a thousand persons to do the same thing. The defence was most ingenuous, an appeal for sympathy on account of her loneliness and her child, a cripple, hut qot a word was urged in extenuation, and tli© maim t in ayhich the appeal was made, was mirth-provoking, She wss ordered to find two sureties of L 5 each to keep the peace. A SAD SPECTACLE. Four little fellows, named Samuel Solomon, Henry Solomon, Edward Solomon, and Albert Solomon, whose ages varied from 12 to 2 years, were brought up charged with being neglected children. The evidence of tips' police was to .'the effect that for days . past the children have been living with their mother in a house in Stafford street. She ie a very drunken abandoned creature. When Sergeant Maloney visited ■it (complaints having been previously made to the police of the woman and men who visited her) the ■tench was so horrible that he could not remain in it. There were no provisions in the place, and the eldest boy said they had had none for days. It was the worst case the witness had ever seen. It appeared that the woman had received an allowance from the Benevolent Institution until lately when it was stopped'on account of' her dissipated habits. The Magistrate ordered the children to be sent to the Industrial School, the eldest for two years, the third for five years, and the youngest for seven years, and to be brought up in thq Wesleyan faith; thereligion of their parents. 1