MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2908, 14 June 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before His Worship the Mayor and James Black, Esip, J.P ) DRUNKENNESS. William Crystal was fined ss. NEGLECTED CHILDREN Isabella Esplin (ten years), and John Esplin (five years), charged with being neglected children. The tale told by Sergt. Neil showed the grossest neglect of the children, who were allowed to associate with very bad characters, and slept in a place which he described as being “ unfit for pigs.” Mr Bain, town rang r, who accompadied the sergeant to the place where the family lived, said he found the father in bed with the children, their sole covering being a quantity of straw ; while the stench which arose from the place was intolerable. His Worship animadverted strongly on the father’s conduct, saying that he could scarcely have credited that a parent should be so dead to parental feeling. The children were ordered to be sent to the Industrial School, the elder child for five years, and the other for seven years ; both to he brought up in the Presbyterian religion. RYE-LAW CASES, Walter Richie and William Ure, charged with allowing the chimneys of their houses to take fire, were let of with a caution, Charles Armstrong and Alfred Miller, neglecting to keep premises clean, 5s and costs, James F. Walsh was charged with plying for hire with his cab off the stand. His Worship said the cabmen had had a fair warning on this matter, and they knew that it was their business to stop on the rank till it was their turn to leave it, lie was determined to put down conduct such as the defendants, which was necessary as much in the cabmen’s interest as that of the

public. He had said he would in thes® cases infiict the extreme penolty, and h e would do so. The defendant was fined 40s and costs, the Bench expressing the hope that the case would act as a warning to other cabman not to offend in like manner. Heny Jones, another cabman, was fined 40s and costs for “ duckshoving.”