CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4090, 5 April 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, April 5. (Refore V. Pyke Eaa., J.P., R. Paterson, Esq., J.P., and J. Griffen, Esq.^J.P.)

Drunkenness. John Robinson and Morris Mahoney were each fined 6s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment: Anna Maria Holland 40s, or fourteen days’ Vagrancy. —Arthur C. Newman was charged on remand with having no lawful means of support. The charge. .had been adjourned from the previous day to give prisoner an opportunity of confirming his statement that he had been employed withiu a week. This statement was now shown to addressing prisoner told him that he had increased the nature of the offence by telling a deliberate falsehood m saying that be has boon waring —Prisoner: Before God, I stw I didift tell a he.—Mr Pyke? Don’t profaniate You are sentenced te three months’ imprU sonment with hard labor.—Prisoner: Three months forspeaWng the truthl-MrpSte (to the constable): Remove that * jois .t'Sa Ss & the railway goods shw one shilling’s worth

day ■Grant ther£ : a bs|») : : . of beer irishe goods shed and inril^himw it was returned beer belonging, to IhtAlbion Brewing Company. He waa notawawthat the railway employee were allowed to drink any beer returned as bad.—Wm. Norman* clerk in the railway employ* waa pausing the foreman to two casks of beer ; one bad the bnng ont and a portion wwTOlfr -Tim foreman alaopointed out to him Thomaa and another man; * WitneM r kad»«markad»t» Thomas two hours befpre that he had been drinking. The baer had been sent by the . Albion Brewing Comwmy tv to Milton and returned. ?-M<«gan Skip- 'f tey: gave unimportant evidence.—Jtnipec*, , tor Mallard stated. that Mr Conyers: , had merely bronght the uaae .with aview of making an example of the pilfering earned on in the sheds. —Mr Harris submitted that there was no evidence of felonious intent or a felonious taking, and that a reprimand by . Mr Conyers would have met the case/ The casks had been lying in the sheds for some , days, and beer had been openly taken in.,the presence of the authorities without any complaint being made, it being 'known that ' the oeer was bad. The case must break down, since no evidence had been given as to the ownership of the beer.—The Bench pointed out that the Superintendent waa nominal owner of all goods in the railway sheds. Asto the felonious intent, that must be assumed from the act, andhot the quantity of beer taken—the element for consider-* atiou bring the principle of dishonesty, involved. The Bench were of . opinion that there had been an improper *»M n g, and that the authorities had taken tEa proper course in bringing the case, before me Court. Wbileholdmg&eoham tnroved* V the Bench did not feel inclined, to send .the prisoners to gaol and thus blast their characters for me. They thereforeeXeroised the discretion allowed them, viz.,, to dismiss the prisoners, the value of the' goods bring 'under 20s. . ' Allbokd Theft,-—John Robinson was . charged with stealing a blanket, of the vriue of 30s, the property of John George, hotelkeeper, Otepopo River. Prisoner waa arrested last night for drunkenness. In hia swag was found a blanket similar to one re* as having beep stolen from Otepopo iyer; and as Sergeant. Hanlon was of opinion that prisoners description answered to that of the suspect, hie entered the present' charge against mm. The ease was dis- , missed. ; • ■ ?