CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4120, 11 May 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thursday, May 11. (Before E. ff. Ward, Esq., J.P.)

Drunkenness.—Benjamin Mountane and George Oday were each fined ss, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment' Jackson Travers, 40s, or 14 days. [Mr Flexman, J.P., here took his seat on the Bench.] . .. . ' The Gaol Regulations Infringed.— Janet Ferrier was charged by Sergeant Watson with infringing the gaol regulations by conversing with a prisoner.-ivisoner pleaded guilty, but said that she was under the influence of drink.—Mr Ward : You could not have been under a wrong impression, being such an old gaol-bird. You know the gaol regulations pretty well.— Inspector Mallard produced fourteen convictions for various offences against the prisoner, to show that she was a hardened criminal.—Sergeant Watson deposed that he found accused in Castle street conversing with two prisoners through the gaol-window —She was fined LlO, in default one month's lmpnsonmfcnt. Sly-grog Selling.—William Davis was charged with selling, on the 10th inst., sixpennyworth of brandy, he being a person not duly licensed. Mr E, Cook defended. Defendant kept a coffee-stall, and after supplying three men with coffee had sold brandyto them. Mr Cook made a long speech in £ ef f nce ' a at its close was complimented by the Bench, who, however, considered the case fully proved, and fined defendant LlO and costs.-Mr Cook's application to be allowed time to pay the fine was refused, the Bench saying it would be a dangerous thing to allow coffee-stall proprietors to sell mints to persons in a Bemi-state of intoxication returning home from places of amusement or hotels* Inspector Mallard suggested that the Bench might express an opinion whether it was advisable for the coffee-stalls-of which there were three in the City-to remain open all night.-Mr Ward replied that that was purely a municipal matter,"and one over which he had no control. Had he been sitting as Mayor of the City, possibly he might have expressed an opinion, W he did not like treading on other peoole's cornsInspector Mallard had only thVown out the hint, as a case of sly-grog selling at one of the stalls had cropped up.-The Bench sup. posed the stalls were there for the convenience of the public-for those who were out atjnght, printers and others. The Mayor ought to exercise a considerable amount of care in granting the licenses, seeing that the stalls were there thoughout the night