CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3780, 6 April 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, April '5. (Before H. Bastings, E.-q, aud A. Morcor. Esq., J.P.s.)

Drunkenness, —Catherine Sweeney, a recent arrival, was discharged with a caution ; Peter Campbell and William Murray were each fined ss, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Vagrancy, Anne Macpherson, charged with having no lawful means of support, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. —James Hilton, charged on remand, was let off with with a caution.

Maintenance.— Sarah Matilda Bright was Called upon by Benjamin Britton, master of the Industrial School, to show cause why she should not support her child, an inmate of the institution, The child had been committed to the school yesterday as a neglected child, on the application of one Wm. Lewis, with whose wife it had ’ been left by the_ mother who had promised to pay for its keep, but did not put in appearance again.—The mother now said that she was not awaxe that the baby was going to bo taken away from her and sent to the' school She never deserted it.—Mr Britton pointed out that u the child was left in the school he would need a nurse to look after it. -Defendant was ordered to pay 6a per week towards her child’s maintenance, the Bench giving her the alternative of taking proper means to get it taken out of the school.

Alleged Perjury. - -Alfred Hutcheson was charged on the information of Wra. Oavanagh, publican, Manuka Creek, with having committed perjury in the case of Oavanagh v, Hutcheson, in which he was defendant at the Resident Magistrate’s Court on March 30. —Daniel Mackenzie, contractor, said that accused had a sub contract for works on the Lawrence Railway under him. On December 27, 1874, witness paid him LB3 for the work done. The payment might not have been in full, the work not having been passed and measured, but there could not bo more than L2O due to him, certainly not L7O or LBO. No other moneys were due by him to accused.—John Bathgate, R.M., said that he was presiding magistrate in the case of Oavanagh v. Hutcheson, heard at the R.M.’s Court on March 30. Accused was examined on oath under a summons issued under the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act. In the course of his evidence he said that he had' finished a sub-contract under Mackenzie Bros, in December last, and that he was part paid for the work to the extent of LB3. There was still L7O or LBO under or over due by them to him ; at least LSO. William Oavanagh was residing at Manuka Creek in December last. Accused, who stayed at his public-house, owed him about L 42. He left the hotel without paying, and witness next saw him in town. Witness was plaintiff in a fraud summons action heard in the Resident Magistrate’s Court on March 30. . Accused admitted the debt sued for, and swore that Mr Mackenzie, contractor, owed him between L7O and LBo.—Accused : Do you expect to get the money from me now ? Witness; No,—Accused : Neither should I, had I acted like you have. I was a fool to admit the debt, —The Bench were of opinion that no prima facie’ case had been made out, add discharged the accused.