CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3976, 22 November 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, November 22. (Before V. Pyke, Fsq., and J. S. Hickson, Esq,, .I.P.’s) Drunkenness.— Alex. Lee, John MTJnton, Robert M’Kerxas, and Christopher Giles wore each fined 10s, in default thr< e clays’ imprisonment ; Anne Nixon 20s, or three days’; and for using prof me language 40s, or se /m days’ 'dies was discharged on a second charge of resist n r the pi die -. Vagrancy. —Catherine Driscoll, who appeared in Court with a young child in hr arms, was chaiged with drunkenness and with having no lawful means of suppo t. Both offences were proved. For beingdmnk she was sent to gaol for three davs ; and on t' e moie serious charge was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. Inspector MaTard wish-d the child to be committed to the Industrial School; but it was point* 1 out by the Bench th it being over four months old it could not lataken away from tbe m »ther without the latter - -anction, A warrant wouh.-he made out fm the committal of the child to gaol [nspeotm Mallard : That will be no punishment to the mother.—The Bench : The child must go with the mother.—The accused : Yes, let us die f rtrrskf.Vtoi*

Iheft by a Servant. —John Pine wacharged by Albert T. Dunning with stealing <m or about November 9, three bells, seven diver forks, one kmfe. and three silver tea spoons of the value of L2 17s, —Prisoner had been in prosecutor’* employ for ten days, Re

left a fortnight ago, and the property now identified by prosecutor as h’s was found in •a cused’s p >ssession—Prisoner was sentenced to th ee months’ imprisonment.

Another i harge — Joseph Freeman wachar e i with stealing on Novi-rn'ier 20 onlady’s jacket of the value of L2 4s from the warehouse of Heele-, M'Beaib, and 1 0.. Manse »’reet. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sen! to gaol for Hire-: months. He was in prosecutor employ when the theft was committed. A second chaige was withdrawn by the prosecutor. Larceny as a Bailee —John Dawson pleaded guilty to a char-re of cniverting to his own use a saddle of the value of L 4, and fraudulently disposing i t . ..ccusedw’as in

the • niul iy of Mr J. T. Chapin. <m Sepfcinher 20 he borrowed a saddle from A-- os M‘K-gg, of Fast Taieri, and afterwards sold it to Mr Low. of Balclutha. He then absconded to Christchurch, whore he was afterwards arrested.—The Bench, in consideration of accused’s youth—he being only twenty years old —took a lenient view of the matter, and sentenced him to one month’s imprisonment. A Self-appointed Detec ive Thomas Wm. Quelch Honeywell was charged by Defective Bain with having on October 13, he not being a police-officer, as umed the nnme and designation of a police detective,— Wm. "eDage, watchmaker, said that on Oc toiler 15 defendant cailed at his place of business and asked at'out a wadi, saying th.it he was a detective officer, and ha 1 to 1 ok aft-r such things. Witness replied, “They must be very hard up for detectives if they take the like of you” Wm. Morrison, tohicconi-t, deposed that defendant told him he was in the detective force now and got “ lls a day, and Bain has only 10s ” —Corroborative evidence having been given ihe charge was, on the application of counsel for ihe defence (Mr Mou.it) adjourned till next day.