RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3327, 18 October 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Saturday, October 13. (Before I. N. Watt, Esq., R.M.) POLICE CASES. Drunkenness. —Bridget Kane, against whom there were thirty-seven previous con viotiona, was charged with being drunk in Great King street, at twenty minutes paat nine o’clock yesterday morning. His Worship said he thought that there was no use in being lenient with the prisoner, and sentenced her to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labor. Mary Thomson, also an incorrigible, was charged with this offence. Sergeant Hanlon stated the charge Prisoner said, while she was in Scanlan’s hotel, Great King street, the constable came up, tapped her on the shoulder, and marched her off This the sergeant stoutly denied, and said that it was after the landlord had turned her out, in consequence of a conversation that he had with the landlord, that he arrested her. His Worship did not consider this case as bad as the last one, and tenced the prisoner to seven days’ Imprisonment.

Vagrancy. —Mary Thomson was then charged with having no lawful visible means of support at Dunedin on the 18th inst. Sergeant Hanlon had known the prisoner to be living in King street for some length of time, and that she nightly prowled about the streets picking up drunken and half-drunken men, and taking them to her house, which was a receptacle for all classes.—Sergeant Golder gave corroborative evidence. Wm. Buchanan, neighbor of the prisoner, said that since last Monday her house had been the scene of most wretched dissipation. Neither he nor his family had got any rest •in consequence. —To prisoner: I had not seen you the worse of liquor prior to Monday last, neither did such disturbances as describe I take place before that day. Prisoner, who had nothing to say, was sentenced to four weeks’imprisonment with hard labor, the sentences to he cumulative.

This being all tho business, the Court ad journed till Monday at the usual hour.