MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3144, 18 March 1873, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

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

Drunkenness.— John Cochrane and John Letharby were each fined ss, or in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Ellen Green, the mother of the child who had been committed to the Industrial School the previous day, was charged with being drunk and disordirly. Accused, who seemed to bo marly frantic, intimated to the Bench that she would “ punch Patterson’s head, ’ as it was through his means that she had been deprived of her child. She was fined 40s, or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment with hard labor. Breaking Windows. —Ellon Green was further charged with breaking two panes of «laas, the value of ss, the property of Zachariah D. Patterson. Prosecutor said that accused had broken his windows without any provocation whatever. He did not wish to press the charge, as he believed accused had broken the windows without any ill-feeling towards him, but from the effects of drink.—By the Bench : Accused had worked for him. but he did not live with her.—She was fined 40s, or 14 days’ imprisonment, with an additional fine of os, with the alternative of 24 hours’ imprisonment, for the amount of damage done. Child Desertion. William Durie, charged with the above offence, was remanded till to-morrow. He was admitted to bail in his own recognisance of LlO,