CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3765, 18 March 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, March 18. (Before His Worship the Mayor, A. Mercer and H. S. Pish, Esqs,, J.P.’s) Drunkenness.—Mary Duffy, for this offence, was fined ss, with the usual alternative. Vagrancy. Thomas Hill, for having no lawful means of support, was sent to gaol for three months; and for being a rogue and vagabond, having previously been convicted under the Vagrancy Act, for a like term. Cruelty to .Animals. Henry Moses, butcher, was charged on the information of the police with stabbing a dog on the 15th inst.— Constable Ross said that on the day in question he saw the dog lying bleeding in Princes street. Witness followed the marks of blood to the shop of Mr Wyber, butcher, and there questioned defendant, who said that the knife produced had slipped out of his hand and struck the dog, but that he did not know it had j 1<: jT v?? Bta *? e Bain gave similar evidence, and added that defendant had made the excuse to him that he was chopping meat, and the chopper striking the knife on the block caused it to jump and hit the dog. The wound could nop have been caused by the knife falling.—The Bench, while having no doubt that the dog was struck, did not think the evidence sufficiently clear to point but how the wound was caused. An Expensive Shave, —William Conn was charged with falsely representing himself as a po w®iv onßta « e '. ? risoner Pleaded not guilty. • Christian, hairdresser, residing ln ., Maclaggan street, said that prisoner called on him this morning and asked to have his hair cut and to be shaved. He requested witness to do it properly, as he belonged to the troopers—the mounted police and wanted to look well. Witness “trimmed his hair and fixed it nicely,” and also shaved him: prisoner saying “ Mind you do it nicely, as f nave got to go to the country and may catch out some time.” Prisoner promised to return and pay in half-an-hour, but did not do so.—Sergt. -Major Sevan deposed that prisoner had never been in the police force m Ukago, and witness believed that it was a dodge on prisoner’s part to escape payment. Bersons from the country often represented themselves as belonging to the force. Prisoner did not pay for his shave till the matter was °f the police. —lnspector Mallard said that he regarded the offence as a very serious one, though the Bench might not look upon it in a serious light.—Mr Ramsay : You have simply represented yourself as belonging to the .police force to save two shillings. It is a very mean trick, and Mr Mallard states he looks upon it as a very serious matter. However, there has not been much ham done, you.merelv putting this Christian to the trouble of hunting y° u UP- - This being the first case of the kind the Bench won tbe hard upon you. A fine of il/s and costs (4s) was imposed.