MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 2 November 1870, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before Lis Worship the Mayor, and W. H. Reynolds, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. John Cotterell was fined 20s. THEKi'. Patrick M £ Geoch, alias Peter Connor, and Robert M'Donahl, was charged with steding a mattrass, valued at ss, from the Immigration Barracks. The first mentioned prisoner was a passenger by th : J. N. Fleming on her last voyage, and a few days ago, obtained employment on board the schooner Dagmar, to which M‘Donald also belonged. Last night they went to the barracks, and took away a mattrass. Mrs Crawford, the matron, observed them going away, and followed them, but not being able to overtake them, gave information to the police, which ltd to their vmsfc. The mattrass was identified by her as Government property. M'Geoch said the taking of it was a pure mistake ; he brought one out with him, and thought he was taking his own one. An adjournment having been granted for the purpose of ascertabling whether his statement was correct, he called a witness uam d Davidson, a fellow passenger, who stated he knew that he had hr. light a mattrass from the ship to the barracks. But that adjournment, while enabling the prisoner to prove so much w: s against him, it also led the police to the du* covery of another mattrass belonging to the Government in his bunk on board the schooner, and he was then charged will), stealing it. He now said (his mattrass was his sister’s, hut against that were its positive identification by Mrs Crawford, and lur statement that he had no sister at the barracks, only a niece. The Bench sentenced M'Gcoch to three months imprisonment for each offence, and made some rather strong remarks upon the laxity of the arrangements at the barracks. M ‘Kenzie appeared to have been simply called on to carry the mattrass away, the other telling him it was his prop.rty, and directing its removal. He was discharged,