CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4122, 13 May 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, Mat 13. (Before E. ff. Ward, Esq., and C. Flexman, Esq., J.P.'s.)

Drunkenness.-—John Harris was fined ss, with the alternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment; George Harris, who was in a state of delirium tremens, was remanded till Monday, and ordered to be detained in the Hospital in the meantime. Theft at Naseby.—Thomas Pyle and Alice Pyle were charged, on' remand, with stealing from a dwelling at Naseby .a quantity of furniture. - Inspector Mallard produced the warrant, and asked for. a remand to Naseby.—Mr Cook, who appeared for the accused,.commented on the fact of a husband and wife being charged on separate warrants. Accused were remanded to Naseby, to appear there on the 25th inst., Mr Ward being of opinion that in such cases the Bench had power to remand for longer than seven days. Bail was fixed for the female prisoner in her own deposit of ISO, and her husband's recognisance of L 25 ; andfor the husband in his own recognisance of L 25, and one Burety for a like amount. Larceny from an Hotel.—Thomas Lam-

Bert was charged by Henry Tullocti with stealing, on the 13th inst., 17s 6d, his money. —Prosecutor and his mate slept in a treblebedded room at the Royal George Hotel last night. When prosecutor; awoke this morning he found prisoner in the unoccupied bed, and on getting up found that 17s 6d hid been stolen from him. On asking for a bed ! last night prisoner represented, that he had no money, but promised to pay his bed today. This morning 17s 6d was found on him. One of the shillings was distinctly sworn to. by prosecutor as his property, it having a peculiar mark on it.—Prisoner {who had had three narrow escapes, having on each occasion been discharged with a caution) loudly asserted his innocence, and said that had he been of thievish propensities he could have stolen L7O a short time ago.—The Bench refused to believe his story, and said that the theft was cunningly devised but clumsily carried out. As a " present" he would receive three months' imprisonment with hard labor.—Prisoner (on leaving'the dock) : Then all the hard labor you get out of me is harmless.