CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4065, 7 March 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, March 7. (Before A Mercer, Esq., J.P., and Dr. Niven, J.P.)

Drunkenness,— Thomas Taylor was fined 5s ; Jhamsay Lester, who was' drunk while ia charge of six Horses and a waggon at Caversham yesterday, 40s, or fourteen days’; and Jchu M'Luskey, 405,0r fourteen days’. . Illegally on the Premises. -John Stokes, whose appearance, gave nnmistakeable evidence than h-i had bath on the drunk, was charged with this offence. From the evidence of Air Braithwaite it appeared that prisoner had been in the employ of Braithwaite and Clifford as shopman for the past three months. It was his duty to close the gallery at dusk each evming. At eleven last night, Mr Braithwaite; having occasion _ to pass through the Arcade, saw the prisoner with a light in. the gallery, and fancying there was something wrong he called in a policeman, on whose appearance prisoner tried to hide him Self. and aft :fwards feigned sleep. Prisoner had a duplicate key, but he had no business there at night. In defence, prisoner said he had been drinking. He asked the Court to be lenient with him, as he had a wife and five young ohddten. If let off he would clear out. He was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.

Deserted.— John (14 months), George (3 years), Thomas (4 years), and William Thomas Avery (8 years), were brought up as neglected children by their mother, who appeared in Court with the youngest in her arms, At the outset, Inspector Mallard

pointed out that the cases hardly came within the scope of the Act. From the statements of the xn'ither, it appeared that the children’s father, a sawyer, bad deserted her sue months since, and one no one knew where. A warrant bad been issued against him, but up to the present the police could not ascertain his whereabouts. She was to support them; but if they weretaithn charge of, especially the boys, who wsrj£|beypi9kl her control, she would go to aervidij,-—Sergeant Anderson further stated that the woman was wholly without means, and her hotxSb was destitute of the commonest necesaaties 'of lifers —The Bench decided to send the three boys'to* the Industrial School for twelve months, to be br ought up in the Church of England form of religion.

.A Juvenile Thief. —John, M'l.eod, .about nine years old, whose parents have only been five mouths here, charged with stealing a box of figs M‘LeodV|deaded guilty—lnspector Goodman stated that early this morning, having been informed that a petty theft had been committed in Princes street by a brother of the accused, be watched the latter; and saw himtake a box of Hgg from the door of Paterson -and M’Leod, put it under his coat, and make off.—lnspector MalJsrd informed the Bench that petty robberies had been very frequent of late.—The Bench dismissed the case; with a caution, the boy’s father undertaking to flog him. Kbbbpino a Disobdeblt Hoots. —Andrew Sexton, who described himself a laborer, was »&rged with being the keeper of a house frequented by vagrants. The evidence of Sergeant Hanlon disclosed a shocking state of depravity. Defendant' was the tenant of a one-roomed place off Great King street, which contained solely a stretcher, and was occupied by four notorious women—Ellen Marlow, Eliza Marshall, Anna- Maria Hawley, and Jane Nicolls, who told the officer that when they were out of gaol they slept on the floor. The pliice was invariably frequented by disorderly people. Defendant was. sentenced to fourteen days* hard labor.-.'