CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3759, 11 March 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, March 11. (Before His Worship the Mayor and H. S. Pish, Esq., J.P.) Drunkenness.—Hugh Mackay was fined 10s, with the option of 48 hours’ imprisonment. Mary O’Leary, who came out of gaol on the previous day. 40s, or 14 days’. Vagrancy.—Aim Nugent was charged, on warrant, with having no lawful means of support.—lnspector Mallard explained that accused had been mixed up in the quarrel with Barnes and Palmer, who were before the Court on Tuesday last. She, however, had been well behaved hitherto, and he fitended to ask, with their Worships’ approval, that a similar course with regard to her might be adopted£as in the other cases.—Mr Cook, who defended, said that accused had been here only seven weeks, and the police had nothing to say against her. When she came here she was unable to get employment and had to pawn some of her things. Seeing that the police were not making any charge against her, and that she was almost a stranger, he asked that the charge should be withdrawn, or that the matter be allowed to stand over for three or four weeks till the police saw how accused behaved herself.—TheBench dismissed the case without prejudice, and strongly recommended accused to adopt some other course of life.

Obscenity. Alfred Guernsey Horley was charged with this offence towards two little girls in Cumberland street, on March s.—Prisoner pleaded guilty under extenuating circumstances : he had been drinking heavily of late, and this combined with family troubles was the cause of his rash conduct.—The Bench decided that they could not accept the plea, it being an indirect one.—lnspector Mallard said that it was extremely desirous, if possible, that the children should not be brought into Court. It was a most disgusting and beastly -ase ; and, in fact, the parents of the children were very much put out about it; and, fortunately, Sergeant Hanlon, after some trouble, got hold of the offender.—Prisoner then pleaded guilty.— He was further charged with a like offence ia Clyde street, on February 19, in Cumberland street on Mareh 8, and in Cargill street on March 9, aud to each charge he pleaded guilty. —Sergeant Hanlon handed in a former conviction against prisoner for a similar •ffence. Ho had been fully identified by seven children, before whom he had committed the offence.— Inspector Mallard: Of course it is quite unnecessary for me to point out the heinousness of this offence.—Mr Fish ; It is most extraordinary that any man could be found in the world capable of such atrocity,—lnspector Mallard added that a bottle of laudanum was found ia prisoner’s possession when he was searched. '1 lie Bench had the power of sentencing prisoner to twelve months on each offence, and ho asked that he should get the full term.—Prisoner was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and to six months’ on each of the others—two years and a-half in all—the sentences to be cumulative.