CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3246, 16 July 1873, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, July 18. (Before J. Black and J. Brown, Esqs,, J.P.s.) —Elizabeth Gray was fined 20s ; in default three days’ imprisonment. Mjp« dican Gy.—J as. Fraser, Whelan, a robust-looking man, was charged with begging in George street.—Sergeant Golder stated that the accused had been observed going into the various shops along the line of George street, and asking for sixpences and shillings. He was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonent.

Wednesday, July 16. Drunkenness. — Bobt. Warden and Geo. Wilson were each fined ss, with the usual alternate e. Mary Forbes, and Helen Gately, two old offenders, each 40s or fourteen days’. Breaches oi? the Bye Laws. Duncan Cameron charged with having, on or about the 16th July, skinned a dead horse in Cumberland street j with depopitipg its offal in the bed of the Water of Leith, instead of in the Manure Depot ; and with having placed its caroase on the Town Belt, near the Water of Leith Toll-gate.—Mr Harris appeared for defendant.— S. Stevenson, laborer, knew the defendant, having been in his employ. at about the 16th of last month. About two o’clock on the morning of that day he went to the north end of Cumberland street to help defendant to shift a dead horse. Being unable to place it in a cart which they had with them, defendant proposed to cut off its head and legs and to skin it, which was done. They placed the offal near the Water of Leith, covering it with boulders, and the carcase some distance above the toll-bar on the Pine Hill road, where it now remained. This was done by defendant’s instructions.— Mr Harris pleaded guilty of the offence, adding that it was not an intentional one, being done in ignorance of the bye-laws. —I he Bench said that no one knew better than the learned counsel that ignorance was no excuse ; and they thought the three cases had been fully proved. The maximum penalty ; was L 5 in each case, but the Bench would : only inflict 20s the flne to be increased to | L 5 if the carcase was not removed within twenty-four hours,—A charge against J, Mackenzie of putting up a stove on his premises without permission from the. City Council was dismissed, the necessary permission having been obtained.