CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4075, 18 March 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, Maboh 18

(Before H. S. Fish, Esq , and W. H. Reynolds. Esq., J.P.’g. ,

[Their Worships took their seats on the Bench at 11.22 am.] - Trespass. —Albert Delmaine was .tsharged with unlawfully trespassing on the pretoWs of Charles Finmbfe last night about ten o’clock.— Prosecutor said that he was woke up lastnight by accused knocking at the door. Accused had Us head tied up with a handkerchief and said his horse bad thrown him and bolted. Witness went a little way down the street with'him. but could see nothing of a-horse soreturned home. Some time afterwards accused* ngain came aud knocked him up. Witness antffi his name, which he declin-d to give so witness gave him in chatg& —Accused stated that his nor?e threw him, and being 2 much hurt he made for the fir t light he could see.—Prosecutor f»dd he did not wish to press the charge/: the Bench dis t issed accused with a severe'caiation. Drunkenness, -James Clark, Thos. Taylor, John Drohan’. and George M ’Laughlin were fined fisrespec’ive'y, or tw nky-foturhours* imprisonment with hard labor ; .Kobert M*Kay, who did not appear, 40s or twenty-four-hours. Damaging Property. —William Cornish was charged with breaking a Window of the value of 7s fid in the London Tavern, Walker street, y-sterday.—W. Lnslay, landlord of the hotel n question, said prisoner came intti the house d;unk, and wanted drinks. Witness refused to serve them, upon which prisoner deliberately broke the pane of glass —Accused said he remembered nothing of the occurrence, but he was willing to pay for the window.—The Bench let him' off on the.nnderstanding .that he pay prosecutor 7s fid, the value of the .wind - w.

A Similar Case.— Charles Edwards Phillips was chan ed with breaking a glass doorof the value of 30s in the Crlter ion Hotel. —Messrs Nixon and Barker gave evidence to the effect that at about twelve yesterday morning accused went into the hotel the worse v for drink, and asked to be served. He was refused, whereupon he became very abu-ive and violent, and had to be pnt out of Hie hotel. In the straggle the doer was broken. Mr Barker,- after giving Erlson r in charge, offered to let him go free u e wouldkeep quiet, but the latter declined, and Kfid he would bring an . action against prosecutors.—Accused was ordered to pay the damage done; in default forty-eight hours’imprisonment. with hard labor. A charge of r sbtjpg the police while in the execution of their duty was withdrawn, Mr Barker stating that he thought accusechwas scarcely answerable for his actions on the day in question. ' Thefts. —Frank Stringer, a seaman in the ship. Corona, was charged With stealing, on the 7th inst., a pair of ear-rings of the -value of 6s fid from the shop of Samuel- Jacobs. • Princes otrett,—Pr- seoutor stated that tho pair of , earrings produced were his propritv, and they had not bsen sold to anyone out ofthe shop.—-Mary Ann Harwell, milliner, of (Port Chalmers, Raid that o-i the day mentioned she, prisoner, and two ether young men were in prosecutor’s shop, and while there prisoner gave her the pair of earrings ■ He had not bought anything-there, though one of the other men had. Yesterday she -saw Detec4veNeiH,~-aod "told hlmshe thought the earrings had not been come right by.—W. Mackenzie, in prosecutor’s employ, said , he served: the parties, but prisoner did not.buy anything —Prisoner affirmed that he did buy the earrings, he being served by a tall young man. —As the prosecution could not produce this young man, he having left Mr Jacobs’s emi loy, the charge was Withdrawn without prejudice.—The same prisoner- was then charged with string a brooch valued at 15s. the pro-pe-ty of Hy. Lane, a passenger by the Corona. — P > osecut'-r sta tedthat th e brooch wab tin theman telpiece in his house a few days ago when prisoner was there, but It was’afterwards m'sefng FTom information he received he put the matter in the hands of the police, who found the brooch in prisoner’s purse on board the Corona.—Prisoner owned that he took the brooch but not with the intention of stealing it. Lane was a friend of his, and therefore it was not likely he would rob him. He offered to return it as soon ss prosecutor. said he wanted it —The Bench csked Snb Inspector Mallard if he knew anything about piisoner’s antecedents.—Sub-In-spector Mallard replied that he could tell their Worshif s something about these men of. the Corona, but to do so pubjicly just at present might defeat the ends of justice.— I The Bench said they could wt accept prieoUev’s defence, and he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, with hard labor.