MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2474, 20 January 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

YESTERDAY (Before his Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. Dennis Risden was discharged with a caution. VAGRANCY. Minnie Crawford, an abandoned character, was charged with having no visible lawful means of support. The plea was that she could not be a vagrant if she received money weekly from the man who supported her; and that she was going to be married next week to one Potts, at Lawrence ; so that if she were convicted it would be the means of throwing her on the streets. She produced two letters purporting to be from Potts, but they bore on their face such evidence of being concoctions that his Worship refused

to credit their contents. She was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. William Davis, against whom a similar charge was made, pleaded that he was about to accept a situation, and the case was adjourned until to-morrow to enable the police to enquire as to the truth of his statement. AN IRATE AMAZON. Mary Ann King alias Hall, one of the inmates of the notorious Bristol House, was charged with assaulting the police while in the execution of their duty. Mr Catomore defended. It appeared from the evidence that Detective Farrell and Sergt. Naden went to the house to execute a search warrant, when the prisoner, in an ungovernable rage, kicked the detective in the pit of the stomach, broke a jug over his head, and endeavored to strike the sergeant down with a poker, and was only prevented from doing so by his drawing a revolver. She was fined in the full penalty of L20 or three months’ imprisonment. The fine was paid.