RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Evening Star, Issue 3660, 14 November 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Saturday, November 14. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., K.M.) Vagrancy. —Rebecca Stewart was charged with having no visible means of support.— Detective JB da said accused lived by prostitution. He had seen her at the theatre night after night.—Accused said that she only came out of the Hospital last week, and had fifteen shillings on her when arrested. The man who kept her was in the countrysheep shearing. Letters in hj r house would pr ;vc that she had cbtaiue I remit*ance j tn.m him.—His Worship : Is it true that you are ia the theatre nightly?— Accused : I go to see the play to pass the time away, and then return home immediately. The constable took me to gaol, because he said 1 knew the mother of the child who was murdered, and refused to give him the clue. In answer to another qu stion, accusal said that it was no good her goit.g to service, as she could neither cook, wash, nor iron, and therefore her employer, whenever she hud gone to service, had refused to pay her. At Home she was employed in a weaving mill for thirteen years, and was consequent.y unfit for other work.—His Worship : Then why did you come out here?— Accused : [thought there were plenty of mills, or I would not have come out.—His Worship: Do you live by prostitution ’—Accused ; JS T o ; 1 would soon v. live with them I Mice than marry those I don’t like—(laughter)—for 1 could get married if 1 wished.— Iche was discharged with a caution

i respass. —George Macleod, for being illegally on the premises of the Shamrock Hotel at three o’clock this mornitg, was sent to gaol for th’rty days. A I true r Wanderer —Mary Kennedy, two years of age, was charged with having no visible means of support.—The mother of the child having died the latter was left in the streets, where she was found by the police.—His Worship thought it a case iu which he must make the full order, viz., for seven years, the child to be brought up in the Roman Catholic form of religion.