CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4025, 20 January 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, January 20. (Before V. Pyke Esq., and J. B. Black, Esq . J.P.’s.) —Augustus Bourdon, James Medlar, Andrew Sexton, and Richard'Saxton, were several 1 y charged with this offence. Richard Sexton was fined 10a; in default three daj s’imprisonment; the others, each ss, or twenty-fo ire hours’. Disorderly Conduct.— Mary Driscoll, for behaving in Princes street in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace* was fined 10s, in default, three days’ imprisonment Inciting to Resist, — l ‘oh. -i t Bird, charged with inciting prisoner Miller (previously fined for drunkenness) to re isfc Railway-constable Connell, was fine I 10s and costs, in default, a week s imprisonment. Vagrancy. —Mary Duffus, a corpulent ebarac er well known to the police, was charged with having no lawful means of support.— videace was given bv Constables Moore and Oaruie that accused walked the streets during all hours of the night. Sergeant-Ma jor Bevan deposed that she came here a matron in the Chy oMhmedin about eighteen months ago, and had been frequently locked up lor drunkenness since that. She was sent to gaol for two months. Theft. —Elias Messuriri was charged with stealing a schawl of the value of 355, the properly of Alice Ruth.—Prisoner (on the charge bring read over): Gentlemen, am [al owed to speak ? I am no more guilty than my little Prosecutri xsaid that the shawl produced which was her property, was last in her pos-es-sion on Thursday, .-he hid been out, and on returning home hung the shawl up behind the d >or, —(To accused) : You dest-rve all you tre*, you ungrateful feljw, after my keeping your children and your wife in the hospital. You know the shawl jolly well.- Prisener: And >ou know you are living with a black man—that a black man is keeping you.—Witness : Uh, dear ! oh. dear ! Your worship, isn’t t at awful.—Mr Pj ke ; Stand down.-Geo. Lati mcr deposed that tho shawl was pawned wuh his employers—Messrs Isaacs and Marks—on I huis lay. the 11th inst. —The prosecutrix persisted that the t>h iwl was stolen two days before it was pawned.— i’he charge was dismissed, the Beuch saying that defective memories would not do in Courts of Justice.