CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4049, 17 February 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

■THOTUTOAY, FEBUOART 17. ;, ■)' ')s (Before H.S. Fish.E ß q., .T.P., and A, SieroW, Ui !:':'•""■■• Ksq.,J.P.) ' ' ■•■ v ' <y\t s : ;.•■■■■ • - .Ui-t-'.-r ~ ...... t . ; |DEDNKBNi!9EBB,~Gear.e Towsey was fined-.-; ss, in, default 24 hours'-imprisonment; "Mitfgt. _ : Ferrkr 10s, or 48,h0ur.,'. The female prison*/ mm.further thaiged having no Jawful means of support.—Constable that he had k. own prisoner since her. | heie in the Invercargill in November" last.' . I}uWhg that time he had seen her waflamr. the fstreets withprastatutes a»d in peverpl brotheli. —Prisoner, who 1 stated that she only left her r .. situation in Green Inland last week was discharged with a cau'ion.! "' >■■/'•*• .•'. : A >.' &jT tliE Wodld Tolmw Yonfgf was charged with coductiug himself in af manner calculated to provoke a breach of th© peace.—Sergeant Mail* Bevin deposed that at about. 8 v.in. ye terday, a Mrs Johnson came ;- up to'him hd bbmTlamed the prisoner- ; . persisted in foll()wiug ,,, berim<i insulting her. \Vitnesß arrested' prisoner, who' w»s the worse of drink and had the ch! rge against him. N'ra Johnson, washerwoman, sjufl nhe wws goirg;down High street towards? Prhc-sstreet lastv^nn%'wi'ffr' prisoner is* cjo>ted a d a?ked be'rto ro for a walk.*• ~SlieV f told.him to go about his bu^nesi 1 , and he-re-.-plied. ; , iY6u haJ, .b-ttercome'tora wa!k, mydear.,, Ashe pertited io following Hr, sne, tfaaibe to the lafet *>Une s aboti- the matter. By ' Pdaon*; She riMrer asked, * ixtt lorn shiling.—'' [ Prisoner, said; that,the Womaa fir;t.acc&*ted ! ' x him. and ssked h'm for a" ►hiTlng to b'uy,fruifc ! ' Bench declined to believe this 3tory. and '. fined prisoner 40i, in default, three days' im»* prisonment. .'■»:•'! \ A Disorderly Character.—James Bryan •» was charged with conducting himself at Outa»m, •

i on the 16th * inst.; in l a manner calculated tof provoke a breach of the peaoe, with using dbscene language, and with -assaulting Constable Clark. Prisrne's couduct was stated to have: beep ye.™ violent He threatened to knife Several peredtß.—Hjß.Wai' fined 2«5, : In defanlß , f yhofurs' imprisonment, *on eacn charge, ~"•:"•' r > '"■" ■' .-'"'.-'.!;'.•■■■>■ »h-" v : \ A REfItrscTTATIKG Rbtbkat.—Walter Muir" was charged with being the. keeper of a honie at Mornlngtoa. frequented,, by perrons having no lawful means of support, ' Mr E. ,Cook: de«* fended.—lnspector Nimbn Stated th'at' durmV fhe. past three years one or moie disorderly' characters' had always been in the housed Amongst these were Jessie Holt, alias JaneKsrbV (nowltvin? in theliopise) VEmUy Evans! k re'ormed prostitute; Jane Blackie, a coh' ? yicterd thief and prostitute'; Rose Ghee; a tjon* ! victeH Mallard (wtto«Mf)-jt : .ft is a *esuscitatmg re-, treat, Mr Cook.- Inspector..Nimon: It is well. known jn town as 'a r t <tr*at .for anyone who wants to go. there to serveliis puii ose. He had soeri' men -going into and coming out of <the v house at all hour*, both'during the day and hieht.—Cross-examined: His daughter mfcht pave spoken to Mr* Muir. ■ Did he knowtshe*; enterel such a house he would far ak her leg; MMr* Cook, > having addressed the BencbV r wished to call defending andetsmine himiißder > |the» Act passed last 8"5460 entitled •'►The Amendment Evidence' Act," "but 4toe Bench held that defendants >con d only .be examined? to oases, audi not in offenoeai by imptißonmcnt Young, who bad known d fendant fourteen years, during which time they bad lived in the same, aeignborhood. .stated that, he had, frequently visited 'defendant's house, but never, saw anythins: which, led him lo believe Shat it' wa''.a br^theL—"Wiliam'Weston deposed'tbat' he occuvind two rooms in Muir'a hou«e ( for five, months, and lived''there with his housekeeper. Ho had to leave the pl*ce id consequence of. Mi- Nimiri following ;hmi .about! He would swear a thousand oaths that no one el-'e lived theVe raat Bi*aeh ! held ftak there wa* not sufficient evidence to admit of a conviction under the clmse of the Act uyder whch'the 6aW was bought' Theresas hot sufficient, -proof that; t e, house ,was,."fream h'ed "in the:p^he'or this clinte'of 'tibe''

[Act It woult ai.peir ftvtri the evid noe of ■the la»t witness mt he "had ©copied part of the house for a porionof hvt vear. Whethertfc Woman waY ih'e; housekeeper <. r> living*with him in itmnonrfife. lfetnons, he (Mr Fsh) bid not. tbi«k imt.i terod; to tirinp the ca»e under the clatue of tha Act there should be stronu*r p* <>£ of quency of people of a certain claju ente-imr ibr eaytng-the-house.; Tti. re «h.-«]* MM b«1-mW ?£??? oy»e ptotniHCttouxfvjslte of the anafe *exv While o und toflißmiiß.tib.ewMe in its legal. little doubt in the mind? of tie Btnch t&ataphrtionof theJiome was notlceptin *>•■ prow*, manned ; The esßeifwas,J dfe«t

WB»A{ wrifca atrrbij mi-Afawtn d taidai&'t* ooriduot'his <houß>i fatter forthe.fnture*ji i; «< - A Weak Cask —Six utemgentlooldiu | little feljow*—three b4*»m:ine to the Pattejvoi | family; a> i charged with hrraking a fence at Mortiingtota, ; th- property of said he did not.a^the*ds fence,, but hi 'had to put up a raw one u* of J being broken: { A. Wtert th«tt\£< ; 4Mt^tlitftuw;!!)); ttmi uiual limb IjiuktH lit—Mr Fish: According to that re Boning anyone who a bake-home i?^ fc of bresd. —The Beooh dsamUiSHl i the Jcase,»l6Ki proof. It w.<b notorious thnfe a number of ladsinadii and mabciou-dy; «n4 ( if arwweWpiWft ! bft the dutyof Bpntih to-an»ke a I who we.e reafiy