CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3785, 12 April 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, April 10. before H. Bastings, Esq., and C. Mercer. Esq., J.P.'s.)

Drunkenness. —William Cobb was fined 10s, m default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment; Donald M Lean, 20s, or three days’. A further charge against the last-named offender, of assaulting Constable Bainford, was withdrawn.

Stealing a Watch.— Robt. Hunter, chawed with stealing a silver geneva watch, of file value of L2los, the property of James Forbes, on the Bth mst., was sent to gaol for fourteen days. A further charge against the same prisoner of stealing a Bible was remanded for seven days. Neglected Child. —Johanna Farmer was sent to the Industrial School for one year, as a neglected child and ordered to be brought up in the Presbyterian form of religion. Receiving Stolen Property. Francis Otpwder was r charged with having in his possession certain pieces of stolen metal—viz., two brass washers and One brass gate for fenders, contrary to section 4 of the Old Metal and Marine Store Dealers Act, 1867. Mr Joyce defended. —The evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that one Prescott, an expressman, had sold to Messrs A. and T. Burt, on March 17, a quantity of old metal, about 301bs in weight. ■ The articles above referred to were found in thO'bag, and were identified by Messrs Burt aS their property, Mr Alexander Burt swore positively that the washers must have been. - stolen, as they were in an unfinished state, and unless completed they were never sold. Their firm were the only brass moulders in.the city,, and no ene else cast goods of that description.— ‘ The defendant was fined 40s and costs.

Mondat, April 12. (Before His Wouriiip the Mayor, and J. S. Hickson, Esq., J.P.) I

Drunkenness.- —Thomas Wood and John Kerr alias John Brown Taylor were each fined ss, with the alternative of twenty-four hours’ ; Thomas William Scott, 10s, or forto-eight hours’; Charles Thornton alias William Kilgour and John Dugan alias Fergusson having been locked up since Saturday were discharged with a caution.

Vagrancy. —Mary O’Leary, ah immigrant by the Caroline, was charged wfth drunkenness, with having no lawful means of support, and with being a rogue and vagabond, having been previously convicted as an idle and disorderly person.—The charges having been proved, Inspector Mallard described the accused as the most abandoned and disorderly person he had metwith in his twenty years’ experience as a police officer, andaskedthe Bench to sentence her to the fullest term tha law allowed.—The Bench ordered the first two charges to be withdrawn, and under the remaining one, in sentencing prisoner to the full term, viz., twelve months 5 imprisonment with hard labor, said that it was a great pity .that persons like her were imported to the country at the Government’s expense.

Neglected Child. Alfred Brooke waa charged by the police with being a neglected child, (he having no home or visible means of subsistence.—'The lad had been found by Sergt. Anderson outside the old Immigration Barracks with barely any clothes on him. The mother was lying in the yard attached to the building in a helpless state of drunkenness, where there were also assembled several prostitutes and men. The boy had implored the police to take charge of him.—His Worship remarked that from thp sheet he observed that the charge waa brought first under the Naval Training School * Act, and then altered and brought under the Industrial School Act.—lnspector Mallard replied that the Act appeared to be one and the same. There being some difficulty in drawing up a conviction under the Training School Act, he thought it just as well to make but the charge under the other Act.—His Worship said it|seemed to him one of those cases which the Naval Training School Act specially applied to and in committing the lad to the Industrial School for twelve months, suggested that steps might be taken for his removal to the Training Ship.—The Inspector said that the lad was very willing. Breach op the Phaob,— Thos. Collier, for conducting himself in a disorderly manner in Walker street, was fined 10s, in default twentyfour hours’ imprisonment.