CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3852, 29 June 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, June 29. (Before Messrs E. ff. Ward, Esq., and 0. Flexman, Esq., J.P.’s.) Drunkenness. —John Colligen and John Dingwell were each lined 6.?, with the alternative of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment; George Tweedy and John Adams, each 20s, or three days’; Jihn Kennedy, 10s, or forty-eight hours’. Kennedy was further ordered to pay 15s. the value of a window in the Corporation buildings broken by him. Vagrancy. —Ah Wong, a weakly-looking Mongolian, was charged with having no lawful means of support.—Mr Ward (to accused): You know what you are here for? You speak English?— Accused :Me sick.—Mr Ward: Oh, ho understands well enough. He has been through the formula before.—Sergeant Anderson proved the charge. Accused had already served two sentences for vagrancy.—lnspector Mallard said that accused was one of those idle, worthless Chinese who would not work. He was an outcast amongst his people.—Mr Ward : Chinese, as a rule, are very industrious—(lnspector Mallard: Indeed they are)—and can find work where some Europeans cannot. It takes very little to keep them, and they deserve great credit, as a rule, for the manner in which they push themselves. There are very few outcasts amongst them; but, of course, there must be exceptions.—Accused was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labor. Theft. —Daniel Sharp, the youth who was the chief witness against Dodd charged with the murder on the Oneco, was charged with stealing, on June 29, from the Universal Hotel, two one-pound notes, the property of John Gollard. Prisoner pleaded guilty, Detective Shury deposed that accused was reS resented on his arrival here by the Oneco as a lew York thief. The police looked upen him as a dangerous lad, and although he was suspected of several thefts, and had been under close surveillance since he came here, they had never before succeeded in tracing any robbery to him. --The Bench did not think it wortli while saying anything to prisoner, as he was no stranger to the business. He would be sent to gaol for three months’ with hard labor.