MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2823, 6 March 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day, (Before bis Worship the Mayor.) ASSAULT. Win. Cummins was charged with assaulting his wife and using threatening language towards her. It appeared from the complainant’s evidence and that of a neighbor, that the defendant when in drink beat the former ; and, on Monday evening last, when iu that state, he caught her by the hair of the head, and struck her. Neither of the women thought he would act so when he was sober. His Worship said, that seeing the complainant did not press the charge, and did not fear further violence, and that it was the defendant's first appearance ia Court, he would dismiss the case, cautioning him that if he appeared before him again on a similar charge ho would be severely dealt with. HEIirXXG A DISORDERLY HOUSE. Harry Pearce alias the Meerschaum was charged with this offence. According to the evidence of Sergeant Anderson and i bmtable Turnbull, the prisoner in May last kept a house in Stafford street, iu which were ouud one morning iu that m nth, the notorious Ann and Peter Sherry, Margaret Robinson and Mary Rudens, notoriously bad characters, whom the Sergeant characterised as “the worst characters in Dunedin.” A summons was issued against the prisoner at the time, but he evaded service until yesterday, when be was arrested for contempt of Court. It transpired that he had been to Canterbury, but had been ordered away from that Province on short notice, and had since been living np country. As he expressed an inteution of leaving the town, and as the police had no desire to press the charge if he would betake himself to honest employment, his Worship discharged the prisoner with a caution, reminding him that if he came before him again he would be severely punished.