CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3979, 25 November 1875, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

I'HOKSDAY, '.OVEMBER 25. (Before V. I Isq,, i P.’s.) Vagrancy—Jinm.s Sw.etiug ws charmd with 'a 1 ’ug no lawful means f suupor*;. I'ete -live Bain deposed that he a’rested prisoner at 1.25 u.m. to-day. Witness had watched him Iroin a quarter to twelve. He was then gomg Horn hotel to hotel asking £ r money. When arrested ho had no m n-y He had been several times convicted of drunkenness and of vagrancy. He wou’d do no work, aud went about tUe streets begging fur alma in fact, he was quite a post —Prisoner was sentence 1 to three months’ imprisonment, the Cunch strongly uitring Irm to “clear out” after oe had se.ved that sentence. V rnr rri’pn Purr _

EGLECTED Phild.—Jane James, fen years of aye, was charged with beiny a neyhc'ed child. Sergeant, A ndci sou stated that the gi-1 wirh her mother lived in a stable used as a brothel off alker He visited the p] ce between ten and eleven oVb-ck last niybt and founii the yirl, her mother, aiiother prostitute named lien Power, and two men in (he house. The mo*her had been convicted of vagrancy, and the step-father, on the O.h of the present mouth, was srn to gaol forihne months fm having no la ’ ful means of su mott Thu irl was committed to he ind istiial 'o m .! tui tiv-

' iirs. and ■ nleied to be br.'Ughi. up in tin; Roman 'atholic leligmn. r>Ri,\\KE\'NtSs ■ >uch M -Meckan for bidiv; dm dc whi e in charge <>f a ho so w is tine 1 10s; JauiHs Pi.ov r was fined 20s. in def. u t three days’ impcisoiim-nc; and for using < bsceoo language L 5, in default one month’s imprisonment.

\3BAULT. —John Meik’e. express-driver, was charge;! with assaulting George Tilbury, ex-press-driver, at the <\ ail way Station on the 20th inst. Mr K. K, Chapman appeared ior complainant, and Mr E. » ook defended, - A quantity of evidence was taken, and the Bench agreed with the counsel for the defence that it was a very small case.—Defendant was fined 10s, with costs of f l ourt only.