MAYOR'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2239, 11 July 1870, Page 2

MAYOR'S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before I. N. Watt, Esq., K.M., and J. T. Thomson, Esq., J.P.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Samuel E. Potter, for drunkenness, was fined ss, or twenty-four limits’ impriaonmoiit; Kate Wilkinson, mi a Hk.- charge, was fined 20s, or tour days imo: i .o incut. ASSAULTIN'! A CONSTABi.K, dames Westbrook was br-umit no on two charges—one of being guilt-/of conduct calculated to cause a breach of the peace ; the other of assaulting Constable Anderson in the execution of his duty. The prisoner is a powerful man, and according to the evidence was leaving a brothel in W alkei street with a bundle, "when Constable Anderson stopped him to enquire as to the contents of the bundle and the ownership of it. Receiving no satisfactory reply, the constable endeavored to arrest him. when a struggle ensued; during wbich the constable found it necessary freely to use his baton. The accused’s head, which was bandaged, and bore other evidence of the fray, showed the severity of the punishment he had undergone. Notwithstanding the determination of the constable, tbe prisoner, a seafaring man, overpowered him, tand he cried out tor

help. A roan named Lloyd, a fish hawker, hearing the cry, got out of bed, and went to assist, which dffi not clearly appear. In his evidence he stated that the prisoner was master of the constable when he arrived on the scene of the fray ; that he attempted to bite the constable’s no<c and bis ear, and that ultimately be (witness) having so far interfered as to enable both parties to rise, the prisoner, although ho was stated to have received four blows on the head from the constable’s baton, was so violent that he (witness) suggested cutting a clothes lino to tie his ban s, and that ultimately the prismim' ran a.way, on which witness went to bed, quite satisfied wi hj the part be had taken The hunch wen; of opinion that the assault was clearly proved, but were about to reprimand the constable for using bis baton when the assistance of Lloyd was a" hand, when the Commissioner of Police point-d out that the whole of Lloyds evidence was evidently adverse to the police, and asked that Anderson should be recalled. Un bis being again put into the witness box, he denied having us- d his baton after Lloyd’s arrival, and the prisoner was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, with hard labor. CHARGE OF STEALING. L. M ‘Donald, was charged on the information of— Patterson, mate o! thes.s. Wallace, with stealing two tins of jams, value 2s. The accused who is awh rf carter, was pr-wed accidentally to have had a case of jams slip of his dray and burst, the tins of jams with which ic was filled spreading over the jetty, lie gathered them together as rapidly as possible, and put them into the case, but not being able to find room for two tins, they were put into the horse’s nose, bag for safety. Forgetting to deliver them the first load, be was accused of stealing them on arrival with a second, and a quarrel taking placo between him and Patterson, the latter charged him with stealing the jams. Several witnesses were called who gave the accused a high character for respectability. The ease was dismissed. OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS. E. V. Godso, for causing the footpath near the P acock Hotel to be injured by drays i rossing it, was lined 20s; and George Watt, tor driving across a footpath, 20s.