CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4031, 27 January 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thxjj sdat, January 27 (Before H. Bastings. Esq.» and A. Mercer, Esq, J.P.h, Drunkenness.—Robert Cook and Charles Williamson were each fined 6s ortwenty foUr hours’ imprisonment; John eghthour>. '•'O'" , She Gouid’ntDiiink —Charlotte v J6ue9, a respectably-dressed woman, most emphatikially defied achargeof dmnWflnriPßHpr'afart-Ad her, and by a snugly-contrived sbrngof her shoulders wished the v ourt to- believe’ - that die had a mortal dread of colonial swipes. Axres ing Constable Kearney, howe'er, told a different tale, for he informed the Court that when he met the defendant at half-pa-1 one this morning she was so incap ble that she could not live her name or address. —The Benbb^hedhM^sß7ihdefa^dt’tv?ffi^^Sf i 800^8 , .’ imprisonment. LiAßuiKiMßM.—Finlay M , lntyre, a young Ud, was charged with breaking an iron seat in thpßotanical-:.Gardens.-rinapector. Mallard, stated that the seats in the wete cootinually being injured by a. number of bo* s. M’ln yre had wilfully broken -the seat in question. -- Will am Gilchrist, a little boy, demised that he was in the Gardens > n the 23rd inst. A boy was sitting on a seat iwhen M’lntyre came uu, pushed him off, and rolled the seat, 6yer, when the .leg came ; off He p opaised wtness a “good licking” if hesnlß on him.—-C nstable Gilbert deposed .that M'lhtyre’ and other lads congregated ■in ’ the' Gardens and . made .u e of mrat insulting language t> ladies and : others.—D efendant was discharg d with a caution, the Bench remarking that there w s no doubt; that the conduct of those boys who assembled in the Garden* wareprehe isiblh ’ ■ .m •; s, >

Got her Deserts. Ellen Barry was (barged with tearing dawn some - palings off a f-nce at Cav r-ham, the p operty <■£ Francis Fult *n, t-* the damage of one aniiluig.- Defendant adm tied removing thepabngs, >.-ut denied pulling them dowm —Mr Fu;ton stated that he badlo-t some hundreds of pounds during, the ia-*t tw<» ye>rs byhw property being uestroupd. Whenever one of h : s house ■ was uuteuautc-d the doors wer* pudeddown, the w lidows smashed, and the property otherwise injured. —Defen ant was 1 fined -20s t in default seven days’ imprisonment. She elected to take the -‘alter atiy*,, - i<u ... ■, * .