RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3668, 24 November 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, November 24. (Before J, Bathgate, Esq., K.M.) His Worship took his seat on the Bench at five minutes to eleven. Drunkenness —John Watson, William Maxwell, and Morris Mahoney were discharged with a caution ; Daniel Miller was lined 10s, with the option of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment; Henry Cross 20s, or fourteen days’; Mary O’Leary 40s, - with a like alternative. Soliciting Prostitution.— Mary Anne Tijppin, an old offender, was charged with being a common prostitute, and as such with having, on November 2s, importuned passengers for the purpose of prostitution - Sergeant Anderson said thait when in Manse Street jesterday morning Ho saw accused' stop a man and follow him. He had also observed her patrolling the streets from halfpast nine o’clock, during which time she h<d accosted three others.—Accused, who denied being a prostitute, was sent to gaol for thirty days’. « bscene Language.— George Watson, an immigrant by tin Auckland, -for using obsceue language on the Mam South Road, G'aversham, was fined 20), with the option of six days’ imprisonment ; and for assaulting Constable Rooney wbi st in the execution of his duty, 20s, or te days’. Charge or iubit. —William Andrew Jarvey was cnarg.d, on the information ot Detective ■‘'bury, with stealing from the of Richard illan, Tort Moly neux, ob the Llih instant, two bank not< s for the payment of five pounds each, th ee for one pound each, and one silver watch of the valub ol Lo.—Atc’uebd had 15s 6d do him i

when arrested, and he said that that was the only money he hud since coming to town.— Mr Huton, proprietor of the Caledonia Hotel, sai l thab accused gave him 1.13 to mind for him on Sunday last.—Accuse I was remanded for a week.

Vagrancy.—Margaret Griffin was fhargid on the information < f the police with having m lawful means of .-import. Mr B. Cook appeared for defendant. Sub-Inspector Mallard said that the circumstances in this case were somewhat out of th&. ordinary routine of similar others charged with a similar offence, he won d ask that all three be heard tog-thcr. —Mr Cook objected, and his Worship do ciped to hoar them separately.—S'b-In-spector Mallard said the circumstances under which defendant appeared were these : Defendant was one of three women who kept a house in Clark street. All these were prostitutes, and very troublesome, and complaints were frequently ma e to the [dice of their imp rtuning persons passing up and down Clark street. In consequence of this the police deemed it to be their duty to summon the throe women.—S>rgt.-Major Bevan said that he had frequently seen liefen lant on the streets of Dunedin, both at day and night, during the past few months. He had seen her knocking about in company with other prostitutes, at night. She came out in the Carnatic some months ago, and had never been in service since she had been in the country. She was one of the worst prostitutes in Dunedin. A Mr Ueany, a carpenter, call d on him on the 23rd inst. and asked that steps be taken to have the prostitutes in ( lark street removed, as their con l lust was abominable, and as one respectable woman had that morning been insulted by one of the number.—By Mr Cook : Prostitutes had increased in number in Dunedin very muc h , and the police had not so much power of lat : - over them as hitherto, owing to the law being altered —Sergeant ■ nderson said that do fondant was a common prostitute, and shortly after midnight t -is morning he saw her in the street in the midst of a disorderly crowd. His Worship said that s mic of th® neighbors should indict the owners of the brothel for a nuisance, for s ich it was in law. Some respectable persons might make an indictment before the Supreme Court, and thus effectually put a stop to it.—Mr Cpok addressed the Bench at length |>r the defence, and submitted that uulcis ic was proved that defendant was pursuing the avocation pf a prostitute, the fact of her not being in service should not be.nsed to s 'ow that she had no means of subsistence Joseph Gold.-tein was next calk'd, and, having been sworn, his Worship addressed him saying : No dodges of that kind will be of any avail, for whether you kigs your thumb or the book it is perjury if you don’t tell the truth. —Witness then said that he had been in the habit of visiting defendant at he r house nightly for the past three mouths He was a .tailor by trade, and allowed defendant a pound a week, and during the time he had known her he had not seen strange men with her. He was going to vielbourno at Christmas, and intended takiuL! defendant with him —The accused, in answer to the Banoh, said that she got her board, lodging, and washing from one -v ilka, for a pound a w ek.—His Worship said that the story set up by the defence was altogether incredible, and inconsistent with the facts proved. He did not want to Send these unfortunate women to gaol, im ess their conduct was disorderly or they insulted the public. He was moved by the statement of Goldstein that he intended to take her to Melbourne, and on the strength of that dismissed the accused with a caution.—Similar charges a ainst Bose Ghee and El zabeth Low were also dismissed.