CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3220, 16 June 1873, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, Junk 16. (Before his Worship the Mayor.) Drunkenness.— Jas. Brown was fined 5«. and Edward Pauline 10s, with the option of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment-" in each case; David Lawson, alias Watson, alias Wilson, alias Wilkie, 20s, or three days’; and Benjamin Farr a, an old offender, 40s, or seven days’. Larceny. —James Connolly, alias James Wilson, on warrant, from Oamaru, was charged with stealing one silver lever watch, valued at L 7, the property of Robert Smith, on or about January 3. He was remanded for seven days. Obscene Language William Collar, aged fifteen years, was charged by William Power with making use of obscene language in London street, on the 6th inst. Mr Turton for the complainant ; Mr Harris for the defendant. Mr Turton said that complainant engaged a girl named Janet Carlyle, and defendant had made use of the language complained of towards her. The complainant aid not wish to bring the case into Court, but waited on the father of the defendant, who said he did not believe his boy would use the language complained of, and as he showed the greatest indifference, the information was' laid. Had Mr Collar reprimanded his boy, complainant would not have taken further proceedings ; and the case was brought into Court as a warning to others and to protect children.—Janet Carlyle deposed that on the day in question, while out with complainant’s children, she saw defendant chasing some of the children who were coming from school, and he smacked the baby who was in her arms, and beat one of the children. He also made use of filthy language to her (witness here handed a paper to the Bench, on which the language made use of was stated).—Mr Harris said he thought it was a pity the case had been brought into Court, seeing that it rested solely on the testimony of one witness. If two or three persons had been present at the time, some satisfactory conclusion might have been arrived at, but there was only the girl’s evidence, and that the defendant stoutly denied. He admitted striking the boy, having been for some considerable time subjected to great annoyance by Mr Power’s children, who called him a little baker boy, and hit him with a stick or threw stones at him. Why his father did not reprimand him was because he did not consider him guilty. He had been helping his father during the last eight or nine years, and had always borne a good character. Mi Harris proposed calling a number of witnesses to whom defendant had been delivering bread for some time past, but Mr Turton said he would admit that defendant had been conducting himself properly as far as- they knew. His Worship thought the course taken by Mr Power a very proper one. Many persons, instead of making notorious the conduct of lad? (who were very much given to this habit) allowed their children to be insulted in that way. The nurse, who had given her evidence straightforwardly, appeared to be perfectly intelligent and able to distinguish between right and wrong, and could have had no motive in perjuring herself, while, on the other hand, defendant had good reasons for denying her evidence. After severely reprimanding the defendant, his Worship said he would be discharged with a caution. —Henry Goodman, charged with making use of obscene language in Dowling Street, was fined 20s, and costs.—Catherine Wilkinson, alias Soldier Kate, was charged, on information by Charles Cooper, with making use of obscene language within the hearing of persons passing in Walker street on the Ist inst. She was fined io* and costs. Bye Law Case.—John Dix, neglecting to have the correct tare weight painted on his cart, was fined 5b and costs.