RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Evening Star, Issue 3755, 6 March 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Saturday, March 6. Before A. Mercer, Esq., andE. ff. Ward, Esq.. J.P.’s)

Drunkenness.— Martin Sutler was fined ss, with the alternative of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment ; George Kirkhousc, 20s, or three days. For resisting the police, the latter was sent to gaol for seven days; ami fordamag ing the arresting constable’s uniform, fined 40s and costa, and ordered to pay the amount of damage—3os ; in default, seven days’ imprisonment.

A Wild Boy. —Charles Main was charged, on the information of Messrs Hogg and Hutton, with obtaining a quantity of goods of the value of 2s 8d by a false pretence. Mr Cook, for the defence, pleaded that accused was not responsible, being under nine year’s of age. A false pretence mainly depended on intention.— Mr Wiird : How would the Industrial School do ? —lnspector Mallard: That is precisely what prosecutor wants, and the object of this case. I would ask that your Worships should hear the evidence, for, so far as intention goes, I think from what I know of the case that the young rascal is capable of conniving to defraud.—From the prosecutor’s evidence it appeared that when accused went to his shop and asked for the goods for Mrs Curran, his suspicions were aroused, and he told his shop-boy to go with the accused and take the goods. On arriving at Mrs Curran’s she stated that she had never ordered them. The goods were never handed over to accused. —The Bench held that there must be actual delivery, the accused being charged with obtaining the goods, and Inspector Mallard said that he knew that to be the weak point of the case. Mr Sutton did not give the goods to the boy, because his suspicions were aroused. It was to try to make a man of the boy and that he might be sent to the Industrial School that the proceedings had been taken. He asked to be allowed to withdraw the charge and for leave to immediately lay a fresh information, charging him with being a neglected child, and said he would prove that the parents of the boy were constantly drunk and consequently unfit to take charge of him. -Evidence of the intemperate habits of the boy’s father and mother was given by Constable Henderson, who said that accused, with his brother and others, often slept out, at times in a pig-sty ; and by Sergeant Hanlon, who said that both parents had been locked up for drunkenness, the mother being a thorough drunkard. —The boy was sent to the Industrial School for six years, and ordered to be brought up in the Roman Catholic form of persuasion. Indecency. George Graham, for this offence, was sent to gaol for three days. A Riotous Character.— Thomas Fogarty, a formidable looking man, was charged on the information of Constable Doran with drunkenness, with being an habitual drunkard, and with assaulting him while in the execution of his duty in Princes street. —Prisoner pleaded guilty to all the charges.—From the evidence of the constable it appeared that when he arrested the prisoner in Princes street yesterday afternoon he became very violent and threw witness. Mr Ritchie came to his assistance, and prisoner, in endeavoring to extricate himself, kicked witness violently on the temple. On trying to put him in an express he kicked Ritchie. Prisoner was a most violent end dangerous man to encounter when intoxicated. He had only recently come out of gaol, after serving a sentence of one month for assaulting Constable Hartnett.—lnspector Mallard askea the Bench to inflict the fullest penalty, and not te let prisoner pay a fine. The whole of the police force knew him. —Prisoner was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment—the full term — the Bench using the discretion allowed them of declining to fine him.