MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2536, 3 April 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day.

(Before his Worship tho Mayor, and W. Mason, Esq., J.P.)

DRUNKEN N’ESS.

Thomas Kendall was discharged with a caution ; Luke Egan was fined ss, and Mary Ann Roberts (on bail) 20s.

THEFT.

James Smith was charged with stealing 39s from the bar of the Plough Inn, Caver* sham, on Saturday. It appeared from; the evidence that the prisoner had been stopping at tho Plough Inn for a-few days prior to the robbery ; at noon on Saturday the wife of the landlord was startled by a breakage of glass, and on going into the bar, found the prisoner. leaning over it and a quantity of bottles of spirits knocked dowii' o{f the shelves and broken, and the decanters on the bar overturned. She threatened to give him in charge for the d imago* lie had done, and he at dnee made himself scarce few’ moments after his- departure, Mrs Ptfttdy went to the glass on one of > the shelves whore the takings were kept, and found that sonic money had been abstracted. On her husband’s return it transpired that 39s had been stolen. Prisoner was the only man about the far at the time, and according to Mr Piuldy’s statement be.had no money that day. Winn arrested at the Ship Inn on Saturday afternoon by Constable Anderson, he said ho had only come in from the ! aieri, where he had been working for a month, on the previous Friday, but on turning to the police records the constable found this statement to be untrue, as on that Friday lie had been ui’eased from gaol, having undergone a' sentence for drunkenness. When searched, ,17s were found on him, and concealed in the neck; ami of his shirt a half-crown. Oxi the Thursday he made an attempt to open the till at the Park side Inn, but was detected in the act, tie was sentenced to a month's hard labor, OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS.

Francis Grenier, for a nuisance, was fined ss, Informations against Jane Smith, alloy 1 rug a goat, to wander; John Bowers, nuisance; and Thus. 0. Robertson, hawking without a license, were dismissed : with ;'# caution. V • ,