MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2633, 26 July 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

" Tins Day. (Before His Worship the-, Mayor and J. Brown, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. ‘ William'Henderson and Noil Cummings were eacb’ffffed ,ss;-Thomas Davis 10s ; landfor breaking a pane of glass in a brotheliu Walker.street, 7s (>d John Sullivan 40s or 14 days imprisonment; and Daniel Mair was discharged with a caution. 'Vagrancy. James Conroy was • sentenced to a week’s hard labor for soliciting alms in tieprge street. attempted suicide. . : Mary Cameron, a notoriously abandoned character, .was changed with this offence. It appeared from the evidence that on the evening of the 20th inst. the prisoner went to the shop of Mr'Baglcy, chemist, George street, and asked for an ounce of laudanum for the toothache. She was served by Mr Bagley junior, who noticed that she was rather excited, but unable to discern whether she was sober or not; he gave her the 1,-mda--nnm in a small bottle, on which he put a printed label “laudanum-poison,” at the sumo directing her to saturate the wadding he gave her with it, aucl .place a portion iia the hollow of her tooth,.and a portion ;iu her car. Not liking’the woman’s appearance, he miked a grain or two of tart nr emetic in the laudanum. The woman went from the shop to tHe'Rnyal-George Hotel; in the bar of which, she obtained a glass, audr pouring the laudanum int.o it,; drank.: it- -off .at, a draught. «,-A- Mr Aluligan, who. it appears has known her for .the last'iW years, ob served Rep, movements, ; and-he .sprang^oyer his compter to prev-uut her.: She,said,to him, “X : haver tftken- laudantuft:; ~ there's., the bottle.’! -He at once sgnt,for the and on the arrival of Sergeant, Neil,, he, fpuud he r i lying on the in..Frecieriek street. She said to the ; officer -that it was. (‘ a bad , job.” GShe .was. conveyed to ,the- hospital where,-strong emetics were 'given her,, and she. quickly- recovered. ~ It was stated I by Dr Yates that she had been. in. the hospital three times before,' suffering from delirium tremens; and by Berg. Thompson that-he had been informed that she had told the nurse who attended - her that she would ■again attempt to destroy her life. > Prisoner now stated that sftic took the laudanum to produce sleep ; a frequent practice with her., The police applied fora remand until Friday, which was granted.

; ; THEFT. ■ '1 John Wood and William StevenV" were charged with stealing ' of tin, the property of Mr J. B. Mudie.’ Tt : ayipeoired by the evidence that a number of cases of tin had been' Sent one. day last aveek to the Rattray street wharf for shipment by the Pretty’ Jane for Invercargill. On Saturday all had been shipped, with the exception of seven cases, as the following Monday three of the number were missing. Steveiis, pile of the prisoners, had been engaged on the wharf by the Harbor Company, and from the fact of his keeping-company with Wood, who is well known to the police,-attention was directed to the pair, and their movements were narrowly watched for the last fortnight by Detective Farrell and Gonstable13ain. The de-ective being in possession of information which induced him to believe that the ram were engaged in a 'Scries of thefts, was, in waiting for tliem on Saturday evening, and observed them both turn down Hanover street;' each carrying a quantity of t n. He first pounced on Wood, and marched him off- to Macgregor’s Hotel,' where be loft him in charge of the landlord; making liim for the nonce a special .constab!c. 11 c,theft returned to the jfface tvhere he had met !the ; prisoners, ’and in a garden discovered over ninety sheets of tin, which it was impossible for one man to’.have carried. - ' Returning to look for Stevens ho found him non est; but he Avas arrested at Pprt Chalmers yesterday.' : Wood being an old. offender, Avas sentenced to six .months, .and to two mouths hard labor.! In passing sentence, hi£,, Worship., observed that he thought, the vigilance’ of Detective Farrell in this case,, was deserving, of G- ,mo notice; and he: had very much pleasure in doing so. His conduct had been very praiseworthy indeed. !