MATCH'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2517, 11 March 1871, Page 2

MATCH'S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before His Worship the Mayor, and the lion. Dr Buchanan.) drunkenness. Francis Grenier -was lined 40s, or three days’- imprisonment. MINO3, DEFENCES. Edwar 1 Coonan was fined 20s, or three days’ imprisonment, for using obscene language, and Hugh Gilchrist, alias Todd, alias Todd M‘Gregor, L 5, or a week’s hard labor, for conducting himself in Walker street in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of tfic peace op the 10th instant. • VAOIUNCV. John Langmuir Smith, an old offender, was sent to g’ ol for three months, for having no visible lawful means of support. A TRUMPERY AFFAIR. David Sullivan was charged with having, at Dunedin, on the oth instant, attempted to commit a rape on El z bebh Miles. The prosecutrix stated in her evidence that the prisoner, wdiom she had never seen before, came to her ’bouse in Stentiford’s right-of-way, Maelaggan stnet, on the oth, and demanded admittance, winch being refused he hurst open the door and afterwards toi’e her clothes off her hack. She called out for assistance, when he went away. The evidence of ‘witucssis threw discredit on nearly all her statements. It w'as stated in the first place that she had seen the prisoner frequently, and had drank with him the same night at the lintel at which he was staying, the landlord of which informed the Bench that rows in the right-of-way were of frequent occurrence, and the inhabitants were much annoyed in consequence. The Clerk of the Bench said when the complainant came to lay the information she declared positively that a rape had been attempted. The case was dismissed. BREACH OF THE LICENSING ORDINANCE. Job Wain was charged with selling liquor to persons other than lodgers or travellers on the morning of Sunday last. The case was dismissed with a caution, the Bench intimating that in future similar cases would be severely dealt with.