CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4037, 3 February 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

. ■ Thursday, February 3 (Before V. Pyke,. and T. Birch, Esq. j Drunkenness. ~ Thomas. ißobertson and Robot t Johnston wete each fined ss, in. default twenty -four hours* imprisonment. For usins? obscene language, Johnston was further fined 20s, or seven days* imprisonment, : Indecency. Henry Rockford and John Wilson, two young men, were charged with bathing in the old Botan : cal Crardensmthe day-time. In dismissing the cases, Mr Pyke told them that if'they watted to bathe there they must go very early in the morning. The . Lottery Question.— The Court da. livered the follow ng judgment in the charge, heard yesterday againt’-Messrs A. and T. ■TnglisThe. defendants are. charged:, itgder. tlie Town and Country Police Ordinance with having been “ beneficially interestednn a certain mheme by which prizes for goods were., drawn and competed for by lot; 1 ” It appeal;; that to purchasers of to' thevalue of L2O apd upwards. within a certain time a ticket ; w&s p;evented and that an equal number of paintings” | o timed) were distributed amongst them by the defendants at the >x-pi’at'-on of the year. The mode of- distribu*tion '‘.as, by lot. .each ,-rpqeiv:ng;.; au picture, • the number; on wbioh corresponded? with that c h* Ot her ; !• , v U 1 Oii-o-Vid;-:' -a-

with - tliis ca e the spirit as weT as the letter f the Or in- I nee must be c n id> rd. The section under which the information was laid was evidently designed to discourage gambling by means of- fictitious art-unions. In the pre.sent case all the o d najw features of such illicit t- affic are wanting. There were no blanks, but -ach p'raon received what wfak. be regarded as » present rather than aiPpSiSAll these were not of equal vaiue, pf distribution, which jjans of the charge, s. ems to faa\^pjen 4 1 adopt'd merely to avoid giving to any one Nor is there anv evi endcijhfxneae 1 P'.izes having been used as iuducemenCdfo the pu- chase of goods, for the only witness examined says. that he got full value for his money, and that he had been in the habit of dealing with the defendants ft r many years i ’ef- in ants 'Camr t ther-fore be aid to rave been benefi; ially intert-st- din the sen ei, plied byWD«ltoam.-TO by Mr Inspector Mallard seemed at first sight to bear upon tte point at issue; but on fuller consideration of the case referred to (Reg. v, th ttheja^arp. analogous with those now before the Tienct . In that case the subscriberswe;e induced to part with the r -money in tbe hope of--obtaining not only their a'leged shilling’s worth, but something of much greater value . Cleai ly that was not so in the case under review, a> d the.it formatiott ; mußb. therefore be dismissed?’ s TONE Throwing.— Ellen Gray, an agfed womap, robed .in widow’s weeds, ..was cnagedAvith throwing stones at Hasp. Nimon

on the 28th ult. Mr Stout, who appeare ' for ronipl linint "stated ■ tbat : tbo-pa ties were neighbors residing in Momington, and that Mr 1 Nimon was continoally harassed iby r defendant and a family named Muir, who fancied they had some grievance with complainant. Defendant said she had been a married woman 45 years, and a resident in Momington 14-years', and this was the first time she had been acctwed: of. "wronging, any one.. Shewtt fined 10s and oo ts (10s6d). Her daughter, from the body of -the court, hew-paid £2 to the Clerk of the Court, and told Mr Somerville to keep the balance for the BCnevolenK Institution. —To this comae defendant demurred, oa the ground that she was an old woman and needed the change, and got it she did Destroying the . Town Belt. James

rfobertson, a little fellow, was charg.d with cutting wood - n the. tovrq...belt. Defendant’s mother said the wood been cut oft the proposed road In?., A fine of Is...and was imposed, Mr Fyke Saying he Had witn ssed many such depredations by children, who, lie b lieved, weie to cut the wood by thsii parents. A similar case against Mrs George Pa terson was di-missed. ' V— ~Bs=~ ' 1 ! r%