MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2292, 10 September 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor and W. H. Reynolds, Esq., J. P.) .DRUNKENNESS. Peter Hudson and Malcolm Galbraith were each fined ss, and Robert Lee, who did not' appear, had his bail forfeited. THEFT. David Sinclair was charged with stealing a quantity of druggetting valued at L 4, the property of Messrs A. and T, Inglis. It appeared from the evidence that, between the hours of five and six last evening, a man named Booth observed a person, whom he took to be the prisoner, remove a roll of druggetting from thg front pf Messrs Tnglis’s shop, place it in a bag, and make oft with it. He gave information to Mr Inglis, who pursued the prisoner and captured him at the end* of the right-of-way by the shop. He had with him a bag in which was the druggetting. He was described by the police as being a loafer and the associate of convicted thieves. For some time past he had been noticed loafing about Messrs Inglis’s shop. His defence was that he picked up the bag half-way down the right-of-way. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with bard labor.