CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4076, 20 March 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, Maboh 20 (Before H. S. Fish, Pea, and A. Mollison, Esq., J.F.’s.

Drunkenness.— Annie T.ookwood, Richard 'bbo’t, and Thomas Mo;au were all discharged with a caution: James M&hone ini Charles Nelson were ;eacn fined 20s, or foityeight hours’. Stealing Jam —Gkorge Hoar© (14) and Willi itn Murray (13) were charged on the information of John Sanders, storeman, with steaVng on March 18 two tins of jam of the value of 2s. the proper;y of M'Landress, Hepburn, am! Go. Each lad admitted taking one tin.— Inspector Mallard : 1 he mo'hir of one of the buys, Mrs Lfosvre, is a very respectable woman who goes out nureinr, and she fiels the j psi tion her boy is placed ia very much. She is a widow, and hears an exce lent character, to which statement many persons can testify. The police found the’boys at IO.SOat night secreting the jam u der snnie wood at the of Clark and High streets, and detained them till we found out wl|o the owners were.— Murray’s father said that,his son got money from his mother on ralur iay night to go to the cirftus, where hj met with Hoaro,—lnspector Mallsrd, in a- ewer to the Bench* said the lads had told him so many untruths about the jam that he could not tell when it was stolen .—The Bench thought it a very d stressing thin? to see apparently rtspeclabl* boys like the accused brought up On such a chv ge; and one could hot helpurihkmg thaf it’ was the fault of the parents In Hoarc’s case th" fact of the mother being frequently away frpm home was an exemg but in the other case th" lad’s parents ought to take care that their boy did not go out late at night. Mr Kennedy, commit ion agent, ea : d that Mrs Hour© was not . at. home one wfeek in the y*ar,—Mr Fish.: My remarks .do bot •upply so much to that boy .as to the other.— The accused-said that they took the jam in the daytime and secreted it till night.—The Bench hop d :hot the position the uoys were now b. would be a.warnihr to them not to resort to practices of that kind f»r the future. They Wiuhi like (he oarents of both boys t» give them a severe flogging, which would perhaps do th m more good than anything else 'I b' y we e dismissed iy the hope that they would take a lesion from the present iharge, andr not be agaio brought up fT anything of the k-nd Indecency. Charles Williams, a man; of rolur. for this offeute was sent to gaol fot a mon ; h.

Riotous Behaviour. David May anl Nicholas Welsh, charged with conduc ii g themselves in street in a manner c«lculated to pi.ovoke a bre .ch of the oeace, pleaded guilty.—Con-TbleShsr'ey said that at 2.20 on Sunday morning i.is attention was attracted by a noise to wb r. - pris. nefs. were. May sad bis coat off, end wa? using til by language to Welsh, who was. also in a fi htir.g attitude.— Piisone May;’l? was -.el-her of our faults, especially m» —They were each fined 20s,!in default forty eight hours’ imprisonment. Stealing Jewellery at Sea. Peter Samarez. sailor, was charged with stealing from the ship Corona, within the past Six mo ,ths, a silver brooch of the value of 40s. the property of Helen Jones. L spe tor Mallard stated that accused we a only apprehended on a wairaht issued yesterday, and he was not prepared to go into the e sse to-day; but be would produce Detective Neil,' who executed the warrant, and who would state what prisoner said with regard to the brooch when appre bended. Of course the onus of the proof-vras. thrown upon the prisoner to show how he got it. The bnoch was traced to prisoner in the usual way. that when he arrested yesterday and informed him of the charge he said that hj fmnd the Irooch iu the ship’s hold. ■ ome two months ago he gave it to a young,woman, an immigrant oq the Corona, who gave it to another, in whose posses ion it now was, A 1 t of jewe’lery bad been missed from the ship, and this was part of ft.—lnspector Mallard now asked for a renr nd for a week., so tbit he c utd, if po sible, fiud out something more about the matter.—Prisoner asked to be allowed to call as a Thomas II 11, a sailor, who sa wbirar >ick up the 1 irooch in the hold. Inspector Mallard said that there would be! a difficulty, as the ship was go ng away to-day, and course he could not undertake to do *i(n----p •ssibilifeS. —Mr Fish : A subpoena must fainted for HilL Especially if the establishing of pri oner’s innocence depends on the procuring of the man, it; wOulcfbe a hardship to the prisoner not to have hiifi here.—lnspector Mallard : I agree with you there, but the difficulty island I think I had better state it at once, thai this jewellery haspasied through the han ! s of many of dhese sailors. How-ver, I will rend a subpoena down to the ship if she bos not gone to sea. It is a bue-faceo. and an impud nt theft. The jewellery was missed as I have stated, end it was found iu pris mei’s posses sion, and I apprehend it_is for him to show how he got it.—Mr Fi hj: Wei*, a subpoena had hotter issue for Hill. Piisoner will be remanded for seven day?.