CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4111, 1 May 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, May 1. (Before E. M'Glashan, Esq., and T. Birch, Esq., J.P.’s.)

Drunkenness. - Charles Thomas, Robert Paton, Isaac Watson, Charles Ruth, and James Renan] were all fined 5s ; David Jones, an old offender, was fined 40s, in dcfaultjjfourteeu days imprisonment. Riotous Conduct.— David May, charged with conducting himself at one o’clock on Sunday morning in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, was fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, this being his second offence. Assault. —Charles Ford was charged by Richard Front with assaulting and beating him. Complainant also askeid that defendant be bound over to keep the peace.— Complainant said that he was in his house on the night in question, when defendant, who was a tenant of his, came in and said that the horse witness had sold to him was a rotten horse. Witness replied that it was a staunch horse, whereupon defendant called him a liar. Mrs Ford came in and got her husband outside, and the latter thereupon commenced abusing him. When witness went outside defendant raised a shovel and attempted to strike him, but he stepped aside and averted the blow.—The Bench: Was the defendant drunk?— Witness : He has never been sober for the last four or five weeks.—Defendant was fined 40s and costs, and was bound over to keep the peace in his own recognisance for L2O for six months, towards all Her Majesty’s subjects,