CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3848, 24 June 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, June 24. (Before E, M'Glashau, Esq., and W, Fraser. Esq., J.P.’s.) Drunkenness. James Hill and James Brown were each fined 10s, with the alternative of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment; Thomas Cook 20s, or forty-eight hours’; William Nicholson 40s, or three days’; John M’Luskey L 5, or fourteen days*. A charge of habitual drunkenness against the last-named offender was dismissed. ObscMNe Language. —Anne Beid, for using obscene language in St. Andrew street, was fined 20s, in default seven days’ imprisonment; Anne Sherry L 5, or three months’. V agranct —Elizabeth Charles Frederick was charged with having no lawful means of support. —Sergeant-Major Sevan described accused as a prostitute of the lowest type. She was sent to gaol for three months, the Bench expressing a hope that before long the Inebriate Asylum, where such characters as accused might be sent for a lengthened period, would be established. Stealing Fat. —Henry Heryott was charged by Daniel Black with stealing a quantity of fat of the value of 7s fid, from the Gridiron Hotel, on June 16. Mr E. Cook defended.—Prisoner had been a cook in prosecutor’s employ, and had disposed of the fat —his master’s property. This was when he was leaving Black’s employ and his reason for dding so was that some money was owing to him —The Bench, without calling on counsel for the defence dismissed the case. Horse Stealing. —John Biely was charged, on remand, with stealing a horse, saddle, ancl bridle of the value of 1.30, the property of John Paisley, Mosgiel.—This case had been adjourned after the evidence for the prosecution had been taken, to enable the accused to be medically examined, there being some doubts as to his sanity.-—The certificate of Drs Brown and Fergusson now handed in by the police stated they had examined accused, and that at present there were no indications of insanity. Inspector Mallard asked, if the Bench were satisfied that a primu facie case had been made out, that the certificate should be attached to the depositions.—The Beach saw no objection to this course, and, in committing the prisoner for trial, ordered that the application should be attended to.

Adulterated Milk. —Michael Grant was charged with selling impure milk. As defendant had purchased the milk from another party and had not adulterated it himself, a nominal penalty of 5s and costs was ifnposed. —A charge of a like, nature against Patrick Welsh was adjourned for a week, the Revenue Officer saying that this was the most flagrant .case that had ever occurred in New Zealand, there being 25 per cent, of water to the milk. Breach of the Bakers’ Act. Walter Wright was_ charged with exposing for sale, on June 16, six loaves of household bread not marked with a Roman “H,” in accordance wsth the Act,—Defendant pleaded that he had marked the bread with a “ B,” as he thought that would answer the purpose.—The case was dismissed with a caution. bigamy. Charlotte Catherine Amelia Schmid was charged by Sergeant-Major Sevan with marrying one Michael Dryden at Dunedin on May 15, 1875, Louis Schmid, her former husband, being then alive. Prisoner, a showily-dressed young woman, was not defended. The following evidence was given Jean C. Chevidre, officiating clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church; On the 20th February, 1871, I was residing at Christchurch, and was an officiating minister under the Marriage Act of New Zealand. On that day I married Louis Schmid to one Kate Amelia Wingate. The last time I saw Schmid was on the 19kh of the present month. He was then living and well in the city of Christchurch. I recognise the accused as the woman 1 married to Schmid in 1871. I produce the marriagebook ; it was duly signed by the said Louis Schmid and the accused (Kate Amelia Wingate) in my presence. Michael Dryden, express-driver, residing in Duaedin : I know the accused, and was married to her on the 15th of last month by the Rev. Dr Stuart, at the house of John Meikle, Cumberland street. I knew her then by the name of Catherine Amelia Charlotte Winzer.— The Clerk (to accused) : Any questions?— Accused (defiantly shaking her hand at the witness): Not at present—not till my trial Donald M'Naughton Stuart, D.D., of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, and officiating clergyman under the Marriage Act of New Zealand, deposed that he recognised the accused as the person he married to last witness on May 15 last. He produced his register naarrriage book, and witnessed the signatures. Inspector Mallard, who conducted the prosecution, handed in the ‘ New Zealand Gazette’ to show that both of the clergymen who had given evidence were duly gazetted. This closed the case for the prosecution. Accused, on being cautioned, said: I say this much: that Michael Dryden knew that I was a married woman at the time of mj marriage to him; and further, be knew that my husband was living in Christchurch at the time. She was committed for trial at the nest sittings of the Supreme Court to be held at Dunedin in the early part of uext month.