CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4063, 4 March 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

SATUBhAT, Maboh 4,

(Before E. ff. Ward* F S q.. and Birch, Esq , :Pru»khnubbs. John M*Land, Oeorge M'Lepd, ChariesPoe, and W illi-m Cummi&, wtfe all fined sa, with the usual alternative - Alwtqed Yaoeanoy. Bell Harris was -chftiged with having no ; lawful menu .of support. Accused s idi shei was marned, anfithe Bench* i deemed this to.be a bar to the . charge. intent and purposes,'she is a vagrant, with the exception that she is a married woman. She waks. the streets,' leaye* her. busbarV .and com-s to town and leaos the life of a vagrant. —The Bench thought the husbands’ in .such cases should be punched. In England, if a husband allowed his wife to become a vagrant or pauper he was made amenable to the law. ' It Was his ’ duty • to’‘ take care of his wife, and if she was > ,bad to gejt rid « f her. by taking the usual leg’d steps.— Inspector Mallard ; : Iffust thejhusbana be sunished5 unished if a' wife voluntarily leads a life of iaripation ?, Putting it if c qiy wife leave me must r rim all over ihe Colony ; after fier?^—The Bench saidtiat every married woman must have meads of support. —detective Henderson gave evidence, as to .-pgl* son-r’p character. Hehad seen her following -men about; • asking them to shout for her. When he arrested her she tad she had-no place to' go, and<.her husband, who was »t gave her no support.—The Bench said th*t the charge must unfortunately fail.lnspector 2daUar<t wished to show, tqe alrr.ost uttw getting d obdviction under the Vagranby.Act against, a married wpnjan. M If that dictum hyldgpodthei motpenf a. woman said'she was mamtd that d barred bed f oin bi ing held to ba a prostitute. The sectionpi^the Actsaid, “apy common prostitute, sfilioitiife,” and. ’ ac'ci rding t‘> the d ctum ‘of theßeicb,no mar- ■ rirtd woman couldbe a prostitute—l he prisoner i wa^discharged w>t)i aoauUon. ■; <' 11 . ? ■, i i ‘ Wife' Mar.thhdr’ ” Clydesdale was charged, on \varr>nt with negltctjng to phey an order of the Ilesideut Magistrate's Court, whe:eby.‘he' was adjudlel to cotitri bu'e LI per w ek towards the sypp it of bis i w'fe.aod child.—Ah <rder fo'rfh« jaymehtof the Hinount due (L 1.3) was made; a < i-'tress wan ant vet>irjiable’-,.this day wh»k ’ b issue; defendant, ,tp enter his own recogni-; sauce in L2O id. appear o>i that , day.—. hei Bench concurred with Inspector Mallard that! the Act wt s not suffici ntlv Stri gent, and that It should admit of sionuasy conviction,,.,