CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3897, 20 August 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Friday, August 20. (Before H. Bastings and J. Black, Esq.’s, J.P.’s.)

Drunkenness. —Duncan Cameron was fined 5s Elizabeth Mowbray, an old offender, was ordered to pay 10s ; in default, forty-eight hours imprisonment. George Young, arrested in High street, was fined ss. . Sondj-y Liquor TsAmo.- I Thoman Oliver, licensed proprietor of the Sussex Hotel, George street, was charged, on the information ot Arthur Street, with having, on Sunday, the Bth inst., unlawfully sold a quantity of spirituous liquor, to wit, beer, te persons, the same v;ot being bonafiih lodgers in his house or bona, .rdf travellers. Mr Hams defended.—Arthur eel,upholsterer,said thaton Sunday morning, ihe Stii inst., he went to defendant’s hotel in company with another man and had two pints •>f ala supplied them by the barman. Witness heard Mr. Oliver, who was present, give the barman instructions to serve the drink. The house was full.—Cross-examined: His object in going to the hotel was to get some tobacco andpayment of an old debt. Witness admits d haring sent the letter produced, to defendant, threatening to lay an information against him unless he immediately paid the money he was owing. It was in consequence of his refusing the money that he laid the information.—John Massey deposed that he visited the Sussex Hotel on Sunday th- Bth inst. in company with informant. Street had sworn falsely in stating that was supplied with liquor. The barman distinctly refused to serve him.— Inspector Mallard: Well, your Worships, I have no further evidence; one swears one idling and the other another. One or the other must have committed perjury.—Mr Harris -aid he had no evidence to offer. Informant was a total stranger to Mr Oliver.—Mr Bastings remarked that there was some very hard swearing, and the man who wrote the letter produced would not be particular as to what lie swore,—Mr Harris said that as the case appeared to have beeu brought through malicious feeling informant should be ordered to pay costs,—The Bench simply dismissed the case.

HOr-LiFTiNO. —Jane Stanley, half-sister to the girl charged for theft a few days ago, was charged with stealing one set of brushes and four tins of salmon from the shop of Robert Mercer, grocer.—Accused and another gild were caught in the act of stealing some vegetables from the shop of Mrs Hyams, Fleet sfc'eat. The articles produced were found in her nosaesfion, but there being no evidence to connect her with the theft the case fell through,