MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2567, 10 May 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor and J. Brown, J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. Anne Hardy was fined 40s or 14 days for being drunk ; and was sentenced to three months’ hai'd labor for being a habitual drunkard. VAGRANCY. Catherine Mason was charged with being the occupier of a house frequented by persons of ill-repute. It appeared from the evidence that Sergeant Baxter and Constable Anderson managed oile evening last week to obtain an entrance into the prisoner’s house—a matter of considerable difficulty at any time, for she keeps her doors locked against the police, and carefully watches their movements—and there found the notorious Anne Sherry, Mary Young, and Margaret ilobinson, well-known and dangerous characters. Concealed iu"a room, in which just prior to their entrance the lights had been turned out, they discovered a girl about lo years old, who give her name as Jane Anderson, stating that she had been an inmate of the Industrial School, but that she had served her time there. The oliicers believed her story at the time, not having received information that she had escaped from service, and not having a correct description of her ; but the next day, finding that her proper name was Jane Kirby, and that she had run away from Mr Hislop’s, by whom she had been hired out, they arrested her. 'The girl Kirby was put into the witness-box, and gave an account of the manner in which she was decoyed into Mason’s house. She ran away from service on Thursday last, and that evening she was taken in by a woman named bimmouds, who introduced her to Mason, At the house of the latter an endeavor was made to make her drink brandy, which she would not take ; her appearance was disguised by Mason purchasing “ a fall” for her ; by Mason ami Simiuoiuls she was taken to several public-houses, where she was introduced to men, drinking with them, as she alleges Mason told her, f r the purpose of “swindling the men;” afterwards visiting the theatre ; and finally returning “home,” where all further introductions were stopped by the presence of the police. Yot all this, as Mason told their Worships, was innocently done—“nothing bad was intended; she knew better than to do so.” As she expressed her determination to leave the Colony at once, the case was postponed until to-morrow, to give her an opportunity of carrying out her intention.