MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 14 August 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS. John James, having been locked up since Saturday, was discharged with a caution. Duncan Carmichael, William Cole, and Edwin Waters, were each fined ss. John H. M ‘Lean was fined 10s, or 48 hours imprisonment. OBSCENE LANGUAGE. Andrew Anderson was fined 40s, THEFT. Jas. O’Rorke, was charged with stealing money from the bar till of the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock Hotel, Green Island. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner hnd been knocking about the hotel, and during the temporary absence of the person in charge of the bar, he found his way behind it. On the landlady enquiring on her return to the bar what business took him there, he replied that he wanted beer. She She at once went to the till and found some money missing. When her husband came back she informed him of the robbery ; and on a search for the prisoner being instituted, he was found cncealed behind a flax bush, some two hundred yards aw r ry from the hotel. He denied the robbery, and having any money on him. He was searched, and 19s in small money found upon his person. It was proved in evidence that he had no money in the morn’ng or the day before. He was remanded until Wednesday. Sub-Inspector Thompson stating that the police would be able to produce evidence of the identification of the money. OFFENCES AGAINST THE BYE-LAWS. Thos. Reid, for driving across tlie footpath was fined 2s Cd; and similar charges preferred against Jas Henry and William Anderson were dismissed with a caution. Andrew Cra’f, for allowing cows to wander, was fined 5s and costs; and William M cDonald for allowing a horse to wander, 2s Gd and costs.