CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3952, 25 October 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, October 25. (Before 11. G. Fish, Esq., and Th Birch, Esq , J.IVs.) Drunkenness. William Tibbe was discharged with ... caution ; William Hughes, nofe appearing, foifoited his bail, 40s. FlUHTiNa.—James Devine and William Linders, for fighting in Stafford street -on Sunday afternoon, were each lined 10s, or twentyfour hours’ imprisonment. Matrimonial Differences. -Thos Barker was charged with breaking a pare of glass in the house of his wife, Phoebe Barker. The defendant, who is an elderly man, stated that he only eame put. «f gaol on Saturday, having b.-en confiven (here for six months in defau't. of bail. On ins release he considered it. to be his duly to go hum# He did so, and st-yc.l at home the v hole of Saturday aft-moon, without, receiving an angry word from his wife. During the whole of thU time ho was uot aware that his wife 1 ad obtained a protection order. With bis grovn-up sou, he w-. Nt for a walk, and they were told that if th- y did net return by a. certain lime th..y would be locked out. When they did reluni. .admission wns refused him, lie Ueuicui ■ eaku., !he window, raying that ii, uas done by a man throwing a stone ; but against, this -here was the positive st-lenient; of his son, wao saw him do it. He promised, if the Bench weuid nive his liberty, wot to molest his wife any more, and to M,ri tto nueport her. He was ordered to pay Hie ..mount of the damage done—2os. - HEATING A DISTURBANCE AND VaGRANCT.— Sarah Uoiman alias White (whom Mr Dcnnialouu defended) was charged with disorderly conduct, and with having no visible lawful means of support. On the fust charge i- was proved that on Saturday evening she had, by her violent and thrateuing com.uct. can ed a crowd to collect in Princes street, opposite the Oriental Hotel. In defence, it was urged that her excitement arose through her having been assaulted and struck, in the hotel, by a cabman named Duncan Muirhead, who, according to a witness named Ellen Jack, had threatened to see her locked up that night. In uiereno# to the second charge, the police proved th.M the prisoner was “the most impudent,” abandoned cha acter in tt-e town; and on the other hand, her mother swore that her (Gorman’s) husband contributed towards her support and, not many days ago sent her L 7. For disorderly conduct the Bench fined her 40s, or a week’s imprisonment; the other charge they dismissed with a, strong caution that if she were brought up she would get three mouths' hard labor. Mr Fish suggested that the police should summon Muirhead, ami Mr Mallard implied that that had been already done, Something like Lunacy, —James Allen, whose conduct in the d---k gave rise to the belief that he is hardly right in his mind, was clurged With having no visible lawful means of support. It appeared from the evidence of Sergeant Anderson and Mr Campbell, landlord of the Crown Hotel, that the prisoner had been in tne habit of victimising publicans for board and lodging, and bailing up people for money, and in each instance of asserting that he has “ plenty of money in the bank but his replies to the Bench this morning show his wealth to be quite imaginary. He was remanded till to-morrow with the view of being examined bv a doctor.