CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3812, 13 May 1875, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, May 13. (Before E. ff. Ward and G. M'Lean, Esqs., J.P.’s)

Drunkenness. —James Brewer was fined five shillings, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment.

Inciting to Rescue. —Joseph Bertram was charged by Constable Beasley with inciting a crowd to rescue a prisoner, by which means the latter, who was handcuffed at the time, escaped from legal custody.—Prisoner, who is mate of the Estelle, was fined 40s, in default seven days’ imprisonment. A Dangerous Lark.— Theodore Walsh (10) William Walsh (8) were charged with having on May 6 reverted a point on the Dunedin and Clutha railway at Green Island, with intent to endanger the lives of passengers on the line.—John Thomas was the engine-driver on the Clutbaline on the day in question. He found the point a short distance beyond the Green Island station partly opened. Had the train being going at a fair speed it must have been thrown off the line.—Mr Ward: Is there n» key to the point ?—Witness : Not to this one, which is omy thirty-five yards away from tlm Green Island* station.—Mr Ward (to the police): How do you connect these boys with the charge ? —lnspector Mallard: The porter at the station saw the boys at the point, though he did not actually see them interfere with the lever by placing the stones beneath it. However, when brought to town they admitted that they had done so, and it appeared that the elder lad was the culprit.—Tne boy’s father, who was in Court iu charge of his sons, said that he had given the lads a good horsewhipping for the mischief they had done, and he hoped the Bench would remember that any punishment inflicted on them would fall on him.—Mr Ward: The only punishment we can give them is to commit them for trial—this being a felony and consequently an indictable offence ; but I hardly think it would do to send such young boys to gaol—Mr M‘Lean thought the lads deserved punishment so as to act as a caution to them and others, yet the Bench could not see their way to send such boys on their trial—The lads were discharged on the promise of their father to take care of them, the Bench telling them that if so serious a charge was again laid against them they should consider the act as a malicious one.