CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4002, 22 December 1875, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, December 22, (Before J. S. Hickson, Esq , and T. Birch, Esq., J.K’s. Drunkenness.—John Brady was fined 20a or threo days impiisourncnt; and for being an habitual drunkard, was sentenced to a month’s Imprisonment. William '1 ibhg was fined 10s’ or three days’; Mary Cameron, 40s. or fourteen days. I* ic ULlak Case— Henry Cheriton, or alienaan, and Jessie Sheridan, man and wife, and' Charles O. Davis, were charged with fighting in Macaggan street last night. From the statements in ade by the prisoners it appeared that Mrs Sheridan, after suffering a good deal of ill-treatment at the hands of her husband, had given him ‘best ’ and taken up with Davis, who she declared would, if he were let alone, keep her comfortably, and with whom sho lived happily which sho could not do with Sheridan. She said the latter blacked both her eyes before they had boon married a fortnight, and she was in dread of her life. .Sheridan, according to his own account, was entirely blameless. He denied that he ever ill treated Ids wife, and asserted all her troubles were owing to her teraper ami improper conduct. Davis, on being oi i\f° r »^L S defence, R 'id he had seen Sheridan leather his wife with a flat iron. He had been invited by Sheridan to come to his hous-, rnd seeing the way he treated her— Mr Birchtook pity on her. Davis : Of course, I aid. Air Birch: Ihe mm e the matter is probed the worse it lookg. Prisoners are eadi nned 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. Enbezzlement.—John Hay pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling the sum of 1.24 5s 6d the property of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, Ho was remanded till Friday