CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3790, 17 April 1875, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Satubdat, April it. (Before H. Bastings and A. Mercer. Esqs., J.P.’s.) Them.— The adjourned charge against Robt Hunter of stealing a Bible of the value of 7s 6d from the dwelling of Janies Forbes. Arthur street;-on .April 8, was remanded till Saturday next. The Melville street “ Stick ing-cp " Case,— John Sullivan was charged with assaulting and robbing Andrew Hill at liuuedih on April 15. Prosecutors evidence was to the effect that'On Thursday night as he was coming from Hillside be met a man who accompanied him as far as Melville street, and then proposed that they should goto a brothel. On witness declining to accompany him, the mitn assaulted him by holding him by the throat, knocking him down, putting his hand over his month, and rifling his pockets. He recognised the accused as the man who so assaulted him. When he met accused at Hillside he had in his pocket about 19s, which were stolen.Mary Ellen Mahoney, domestic servant to Mrs Yaend, Grange street, deposed that on Thursday last, between 10 and 11 p.m. while going a message to Manor Place, and when passing down Melville street she heard a struggle, and approaching to where it was taking place saw one mandownand another on top of him kneelmg on his chest. His hand was on the throat or mouth of the other, and with the other hand ■ rifling the man’s pocket. Witness said, you doing?” and the man . ® 7™ assaulting the other rati away, hat . a few yaida ot . nCBS at the man on the ground, men comic ? accompanied ®® er , me,Ba 8 e - She identified the man on “ Pouter, and he was bleeding tißae - Witness could j; hft* Xftapeuy# the other man, as she was too much confused .when he ran Hector Monkford, bricklayer’s laboret, wL s»ring

«P L rtrist, near St. Andrew's Church, with his brother aad another man on the night of the outrage, when they heard a woman’s screams. They ran up the street, and when about the middle of Maitland street, between Melville street and Manor place, witness saw a dark object on the right-hand side of the road under a rook, and about two yards from the footpath. Witness’s brother shook the object, which turned out to be a man whom he now recognised as prosecutor. The latter was lying on his back, apparently quite insensible, with blood running from his head. On lifting him up they found his left hand trousers pocket turned inside out. Immediately under the pocket he picked un a two-shilling piece, a shilling, and a sixpence, and about twenty yards off the hat produced. "Witness noticed Ciarks on his throat, and saw his whiskers were covered with blood. Prosecutor, on being asked what was the matter simply said, “Oh, my throat. —Corroborative evidence was then given. Constable Walters deposed that, after hearing the screams of a woman, he met a man running down Lees street, and stopped him and asked him what was the matter with him. The man had no hat on, and said he had been hammered by some men. Witness asked him to go with him to the place, and the man replied, “You had better go to .” Witness was in plain clothes, and did not state he was a constable. This took place within a few yards of a gas lamp, and he recognised the accused as the man whom he so accosted. He had met accused on several previous occasions.—James Davies, proprietor of the Albion Hotel, |Maclaggan street, said that accused stopped with him for ten days after the races. He always wore clothes similar to those which he now had on, and witness identified the hat produced (that picked up by Monkford) as the one accused used to wear.—Sergeant Sevan arrested accused at ten o’clock last night. On the charge being road, he said he was in bed at nine o’clock the previous night.—Prisoner was committed for trial