CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3757, 9 March 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, March 9. (Before His Worship the Mayor and H. S. Fish, Esq., J.P.) Drunkenness.— Richard Round was fined ss, with the option of twenty four hours’ imprisonment ; Archibald Morrison 20s, or twenty-four hours’; Ellen Burton 10s, or fortyeight hours; Ellen Maitland 10s, or three days’; Christian Tonson 40s, or fourteen days’. Theft. Elizabeth Whitter, a young woman, was charged on the information of Elizabeth Hill with stealing one apron and one chemise, of the value of 6s, from a dwellinghouse at the Glen.—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and it appeared that she came out to the Colony as an immigrant by the Mairi Bhan some months ago. The things had been stolen from a fellow servant. —Accused was sent to gaol for three days.—She was further chaiged with stealing several articles of underclothing, the property of her late employer, Thomas Andrew, junr., from the same place. —Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sent to gaol for seven days.—Mr Fish: I presume there are no means by which prisoner can be kept away from the other prisoners ?—lnspector Mallard : I will intimate your Worship’s wishes to the governor of the gaol. Vagrancy. —Hetty Barnes, who only came out of gaol a few days ago, and Mary Ann Palmer were complained of by the police as vagrants.—The Bench sentenced Barnes to thirty days’ imprisonment, whereupon Mr Cook, who defended, urged that before judgment was recorded his client should be given an opportunity of clearing out from the Province, which course the Bench agreed to adopt, telling Barnes that if she was not away within a week she would get the full term of imprisonment. The same course was pursued in Palmer’s case.

Maintenance.— The Bench finding that Louis Bouisson had made default for seven weeks in paying the 7s 6d per week to his wife ordered by Mr Bathgate, R.M., directed a warrant to be issued by default.