CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4118, 9 May 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, May 9. (Before A. Mercer, Esq., and J. Black. Esq., J.P.’s.) V

Drunkenness. Charles Montague and Kichard Thomson were each fined 10s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment; Anna Mana Horley, 40s or fourteen days’, ihe last-named defendant was further sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, with hard labor. Charles Brennan was fined ss. Assault. —Ellen Connell was charged by C. Cooper, agent, with assaulting and beating him in Walker street on the previous day.--Complainant stated that defendant’s parents were tenants of his, and both were addicted to drink. Yesterday defendant went to her brother’s house in a state of semi-intoxication and assaulted witness. Constable Barry, who witnessed the assault and heard the foul language she used, arrested her.—A witness was called for the defence, but he failed to prove anything. Complainant claimed the privilege to set himself right with the public through the Pr°ss, It was such characters as the defendant that gave his property such a bad name. Ti is character and property had been greatly maligned. For years he had endeavored to eradicate the nuisance in Walker street, and if other landlords had been of j as much assistance to the police that street I would now have been as orderly as any other in the town. At the same time he desired to acknowledge the services rendered him by the police in time of necessity. Defendant was bound over to keep the peace for sii months in her own recognisance of L2O. Robbery from the Person.— Kdward Hughes was charged, on remand, with stealing, on April 25, eighteen one-pound bank notes from the person of John Patter son.—lnspector Mallard asked that the charge be withdrawn, without prejudice; Prosecutor had gone to Melbourne, having distinctly stated he would not appear to proceed with the charge." A warrant had been issued for his apprehension,, but he had gob away,—The charge was withdrawn. Assault. —Benjamin Curtis Was charged by Nathan Green with assaulting and beating him at Mosgiel on the 7th inst. Complainant also asked that defendant be bound over to keep the peace. Mr Bathgate appeared , for complainant,-—Defendant had struck Green several times without provocation. He was fined 40s and costs, in default 14 days’ imprisonment; and was bound over to keep the peace for six months in his own recognisance of L2O, and one surety of LlO. Wife Desertion, Charles Arthurs' charged on warrant with deserting Dorothea Arthurs, his wife, at Christchurch, was remanded to that city.