MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3120, 18 February 1873, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor and J. Black, Esq., J.P.)

Drunkenness. William Harper was lined ss, with the alternative of 34 hoars’ imprisonment. Assault.— Elizabeth George, on remand, was charged with attempting to stab Benjamin Jordan with a knife, on Sunday last, in a right-of-way off Walker street.—Benjamin Jordan, laborer, said he remembered Sunday last. Between two and three o’clock, as he was going home past George’s house, accused swore at him. He (witness) remonstrated with her husband, whereupon she got a plate, and he thought she was going to break it over him. She then went into the house, and, having got a knife, inflicted a wound on his face.—By accused: He never called her names or struck her.—-James lliordan and William Wilson corroborated last witness’s evidence. Riordan said he dressed the wound on the day in question, but from the nature of the cut he could not get the plaster to stick. Constable Rooney said he knew accused had lived in the locality referred to during the last 12 months. He bad never arrested her before the present occasion, though he had heard several complaints from the neighbors about her and her husband. He had carefully looked over the annals of the criminals, and had found five or six charges recorded against her. Sub-Inspector Mallard intimated that it was one of those disgraceful scenes which occurred in these right-of-ways on Sunday afternoons, and that the parties concerned would have hushed it up had it not been for the police. Prisoner (crying) said she had not been in the habit of insulting people, and that her husband had been induced to take to drink through keeping company with Jordan. She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard laber. , . Bye-law Case.— James Simpson, against whom there Were twd separate chatgCs of Allowing a cow td roam, was fined IQs and costs in each case.