CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4148, 13 June 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, June 13. ■ ?ir; (Before K. Paterson, Esq., and E. Esq., J.F.’s.) ' -

"“ ,1 * V Drunkenness. — WilliamSoldarid FraneiS' ' Millar were each fined 10s, or, in defeutt; forty-eight hour*’ imprisonment ; Isaac Taylor, 5s or twenty-four hours. Breach of the Peace. —William LyndiiS, charged with behaving himself in a dis-. orderly matm.cr in, Walker street, was fined 10s, or, in default, : prisomnent. Stealing FowLS.—Charlcs Young, eight years old, was ehatged, .on warrant, with a pair df fOWtef-* of James M'Quiu. The kd’s fathe£ was dead* and his mother, had recently gone to Melbourne, leaving fierfatfaily running wild, about the streets. ~ He was sentenced to tWehty-four hours’ ; arid then to be committed to the Industrial School for six years, and to he brought up in the Episcopalian form of religion; . r v Bobbery from the pERaoN. Stepheii Toohtey, alias Carty, was charged by Wil-. Uam Reid With, stealing from apooket-book, on June 13, seven Ll bank-notes, hispro-: petty.—Prosecutor, a ploughman; said >he Tell in with accused yesterday iafternoon, and was riding about with him in a cab for some time. Before falling in. with accused he cashed a cheque for. L2O on the Colohial Bonk, getting LI-notes in payment;' There were other , persons besides the accused in ibis company* and Witness was standing treat for them. Accused told him he had no money. Witness had been drinking with prisoner and the others pretty freely. His money Was"in a pocketbook. The purse produced was his. In it there was about 17s. It was in his tronserspocket. On recovering his! senses,, About five o’clock this morning, he found, that hjis pocket-book and its contents, and also the purse produced and its. contents, had been taken frpm him; :He nevet; knew the accused before falling iq with him yesterday; f Toths best of his recollection L 7 17shad been taken from him' By : aoctfabdi L blame you for’ taking the money, . because the woman who. was in the cab With us; fjgld me you had thy money. - Sergeant ’ Anderson dc|bsed that at a J quarter to five this morning ;he saw a cab outside' the Occidental Hotel, ‘ Prosecutor hailed him and told him he had r .lost his purse and pbeket-bo >k : thelatter contained from L 7 to LlO, Ll notes on the Colonial Bank. In the cab, Which was in charge of Archibald - Mnirhead, Was‘a prostitute; named Millar,; and; :tWO mem He searched the cab, but found .nothing.; Near the off wheel of the cab he fourid. the pttrse produced* ! containing> half a sovereign and a’sixpence/ Prosecutor identified the purse, .his;; proper^ 1 . ; Wit-; ness took tho whqlc party to thfelock.up; and’ searched „ them. On Jibe prlsoiier he • found seven Ll-iiotes oa'the Cblomal Bank;; also four floiius, six shillings, three six 'pences, a threepenny piece, and someoop- \ pera; also a blank cheque on the Bank of Ne* South Wales. Prisoner said he got the*notes at Balclutha, where he cashed;a cheque.—Constable Gilbert .saw a cab in which prisoner and prosecutor were pull up : at a coffee-stall in George street. ‘Prosecutor tendered LI for the refreshnients, and received 17s, change. Prisoner volunteered to take charge of the money.—Millar' (previously fined, for drunkenness) was next placed, in the dock, but she was in an unfit state to give evidence.—The Charge was. accordingly remanded till Saturday,. ' ‘ XJnsufpor.’PED Charges.— Alex. Stephenson* defended by Mr Hama, ‘pleaded not guilty to a charge of drnhkehness at Green ‘ Island on the. Bth inst.—Cphktable McLeod stated that,prisoner was ‘ ‘ Vickedly drank ” 1 when he arrested him.—For the 1 defence ■ Robert Renton, ploughman, Mosgicl, stated '■ that accused was speaking to Wetherspoon and himself when the-constable came up to 1 him and told hiin to go home and/not get into further trouble. Stephenson said he had business in ■Mosjgiel , 'and would not go hoihe till he had transacted it. The constable eaid he would fifadiaplaCe for him if . he did not go hpme. He took prisoner to ! the lock-up. Stephenson was not dr ink.— Stephenson was examined on oath, when he stated that he was sober when thfe constable ' came up to' him and locked him up.—The Bench were of opinion that the constable must have been mistaken, and, dismissed the charge, the. evidence £eing entirely .in favor of the defendant.—He was then .charged with using obscene, language. —This charge also fell through.—Mr Ward asked whether it was the duty of the'police : td tell people when they met them in the street to go to their homes I—lnspector Mai; bird: Well, I can’tsay j. perhapsit;is their duty to do so. But of coarse, if a constable sees a man under the influence of .'drink and 1 kicking up a row, he might good-natirredly. • advise mm to go home.r^Mfmaifdremarkedthat there was ho evidence 1 that- the man was either drunk or kicking up a row.—lns; spector Mallard; A little gem at rimes does a deal of‘good.— Mr Ward /jTe- - plied vthat, such conduct was , sometimes officious interference oh the.'part of sppie ! people.—Mr Harris, if necessary, cOuld bring twenty people .tomroyq: that .thejcon- . stable had unnecessarily and improperly , interfered;— Inspector" Mallard : : I can only say the 7 Commissioner" is desirous that a)I. such matters should be fully investigated.— Mr Ward; Well, the matter is left in your haiids. The‘case is dismissed.

' Larceny £s'a Bailee;-'-*- Percy-Smith, watchmaker, was charged, on remand, with converting to his own use a silver watch, of the value of L 3, /the,/property of James Campbell, of which he was bailee.—Prisoner admitted pledging the watch, hut said he should not have done so had he known the offence was so serious.—Similar charges were preferred by H. M. Marks, W. Lathbury, and Robt. Bolton.-“—Prisoner admitted all the charges, and said he was in difficulties at the time her pledged the watches. He had no felonious intention in the matter, and meant to redeem the watches and return them as soon as he got into a situation. Had he intended to steal the watches ‘he should not have given his proper name and address. He merely looked hpon it as a detention of property, and not as a ■ criminal act.—lsaac Aarons,' assistant to Isaacs and Marks, deposed that when accused pawned the gold watch he said it was his wire’s property.—Accused was sentenced to twentyon*' days’ imprisonment bn each* charged Theft. -Michael Walsh, charged with stealing Ll, the property of Henry Barry, was discharged; Mr Bathgate -defended.