CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3889, 11 August 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, August 1L (Before H. S. Fish, Esq., and C. Flexman, Esq., J.iVa.)

Drunkenness. —Robert Stephenson was remanded until the following day. Michael Sutton and Henry Rudd were each fined Kb, in default forty-eUht hours’.imprison- cent. Child Maintenance.— Henry West was charged on warrant wii hj having neglected for a month to pay 7e 0d a week towards the support of his illegitimate child, as ordered by the Resident Magistrate in Dunedin. The amount in arrears. L 0 12s 6d, was p«i l into Court. . RobbekikS. —William Andersen, a boy of sixteen, who has previously been convicted for various offences, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for being llegally on the premises of the Pacific Hotel; to three months’ for stealing 30s from the pocket of a vest, the property of Henry Tattorsfield; and to a further term of three months’ with hard labor for stealing a pair of boots, the property of Win, Gage. An Inv tebate.--David Tuppin, an irre. claimable drunkard, was sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment for vagrancy. It wa* stated that he had taken laudanum to kill himself, but the dose was insufficient. 1 HEFT. —Thomas Dobson was charged with stealing a cheque for the payment of L 4 6s two one-pouud notes, and 1.2 Is fld in silver’ from the Globe Hotel, about ten o’clock on the night of the 10th instant.—Prisoner, it appeared, bad entered the bar of the hotel, and, no ,!i ne beiu g present, had rifled the till, and on Mrs .Diamond, the pro* pnetress, making her appearance he made off,

but was abased and captured by Mr W. TaUantine, a lodger iu ho hotel.-—Detective Headerson said accused arrived by the Parsee about eleven mmths ago, and had been churned with forcibly entering a dwoUiiu-house and robber' from the person sin ehm arrival Witness, on observing him entering the Globe Hotel, immediately informed Mrs Diamond that he was a suspicions character. Constable Wylie, into who'e charge prisoner wa- subsequently givm, stated that he was very violent and threatened to stab him (witness). —In answer to the Bench, accused denied all knowledge of the charge.— He W,(B fully committed for trial.