CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3690, 20 July 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, July 20. (Before H. Baitings, Esq., and Dr Niven, J.P’s.)

Dbdnkennbss. —Isabella Sheriff was discharged witn a caution; William Millar was lined ss, with the alternative of twenty-four hours’ imprisonment; Elisabeth Attwood and Mary M. Smith were each fined 20s, or twenty four hours’ imprisonment; James Peat was fined 20s, or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. Obscene Language. —Elizabeth Daly, for using obscene language within the hearing of persons passing in Walker street, was fined 40s and costs. PoCEET-MCKiNO.-*Thos. Dodson was charged with stealing, from the person of Elias Masurere, on July 20, two purses, one pipe, and 2s 6d in money.—Prosecutor, who described himself as a mason, said that he was not living anywhere at present, having been turned out of bis quarters—one of the Government cottages—last night. He then lay down under the porch of the house and went to sleep, but was woke up by finding the accused robbing him. He followed the prisoner to the house of a Mrs Mahoney, and reported the matter to the police.—Mr Bastings; You say you were turned out of the Government cottages yesterday ? —Witness : Yes, because I could not pay my week’s rent. Being unable to get worse I had to go bottle-gathering.—Mr Bastings (surprised) : You are a stone-mason, and you say you had to go gathering bottles ?—Witness : Yes, I am only a ** new chum " here, and I have endeavored to get work, but cannot. I am not the only maeon wke is out of work.— Ellen Mahoney said that she found accused in her kitchen at two o’clock this morning. He was improperly there, and had gained admission through a broken window,—lnspector Mallard stated that the property had been stolen. He was Informed by Mr Hooper that prosecutor owed eleven weeks’ rent, and not one week’s, as stated by him.—Mr Bastings, in discharging aceused with a severs reprimand, commented on the Government cottages being mads a receptacle for half-loafing people, instead of being let to deserving people —now arrivals getting an honest living. Several complaints had been made to him in his Judicial capacity of the character of persons iving in these houses. It was monstrous to let houses erected by the public and out of public money to such persons as prosecutor, who, for instance, said ne was a stonemason, but had to gather bottles; while it was a wellknown fact that stonemasons up-country could get a pound a day. It was a terfeot farce to let the cottages to such people.—Mr Hooper : Will yoar Worship allow me to make a remark?—Mr Bastings (curtly): I\o, I w|U not, I It is not for persons to come here to make remarks; it is only for mo to make remarks.

TaLuaas w&thuMd by Nathan Hait with stealing a quontity'of glassware, of ihe value of L 4 165,-—Prisoner pleaded guilty. It appeared that he had only been in prosecutor s employ a fortnight, and during that tins* the thefts had been committed. The goods were part of M'Leod, Fownes and Oo.’s estate, and had been purchased by prosecutor.— Prisoner was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.