CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4257, 18 October 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

|' Wednesday, October 18. 1 (Before E. ff Ward, Esq., and C. Flexman, Esq., J.P.’s.)

Drunkenness. —Margaret Fertier, Mary Thomson, and Charles Pheltrom were fined 20s each, in default three days- imprisonment.

Petty Larceny. —Mary Allan, an old woman, was charged with stealing a ring of the value of 3s, the property of Edward Bradley.—Prosecutor, a fireman, said he was in a house in Machin’s right-of-way recently. While asleep in bed there a ring was taken off his finger. The ring produced was the same. Prisoner: You gave it to me, you wicked, brutal man. Oh, you villain.—Jane M ‘Leod said that when Sergeant Anderson charged prisoner with stealing the ring, she denied all knowledge of it. He then searched her hnd found it in her pocket.—Prisoner (excitedly) ; “ Oh, you wicked woman; it served me right for going to such a place.” Witness: “Thank you; you are a lady.”— Sergeant Anderson corroborated the last witness’s evidence. When he found the ring in prisoner’s pocket she said prosecutor gave it to her.—Prisoner: Now, honor, didn’t I say from the first he gave it to me ? —Sergeant Anderson ; No. When prosecutor charged you with steading the ring you denied having seen it.—Prisoner : Yeu swear that, but you don’t believe you have a soul to save, do you.? But I believe I have one.—Mr Ward remarked that prisoner only came out of gaol on Friday last.—Prisoner: God help me, I have had enough of gaol.— Mr Ward : Yes, I think you have spent ten or twelve years there.—Prisoner: Begging your pardon—fifteen, ; pon my honor.— (Laughter.) —Mr Ward : And now you have broken out in a fresh place—petty larceny. There are in all fifty live previous convictions against you. I think you are a very nice sample of a woman at any rate.—She was sent back to her “ old quarters ” for fourteen days.—Prisoner was further charged with having no lawful means of support. She begged hard to get off, saying that she had a daughter married to a Chinaman at Tuapeka, and she wished to spend the rest of her days in peace with this happy couple. The Bench were desirous of giving the prisoner a chance, and the charge was accordingly withdrawn.

Disorderly Behaviour. —Alice M‘Namara and Mary Anne Ford, defended by Mr E. Cook, were charged with being common prostitutes and acting in a riotous manner in Macbin’s rigbt-of-way at 6.45 p.m. yesterday.—Sergeant Anderson Stated the case. Both prisoners were prostitutes. Ford was in a half-naked state, squaring up to a man; and M‘Namara was conducting herself in an unbecoming manner.—Ford objected to being designated a common prostitute. She kept a brothel, but that was all that could be said against her.—Sergeant Anderson: I have seen you in bed with different men.—Mr Ward had understood that all brothels had been cleared away from the right-of-way.— Inspector Mallard said that it was impossible to keepthe women away from there. If they were turned out they only went somewhere else.—Sergeant Anderson; And to a more respectable part of the City.—The Bench thought both the accused were gomg to ruin as fast as they could. Ford was well connected, her uncle being an officer in the police force; and it was disgraceful for a young girl like her to make a statement that she kept a brothel. The accused were reprimanded and discharged. C iiLD Maintenance. —John M‘Manus was charged by Mr Titchener, master of the Industrial School, with failing to contribute towards the support of bis four children, inmates of that institution. The children have been in the school for two years, and defendant bad in no way contributed to their support. —He was ordered to pay 12s per week, —Defendant: “ Then you will have to find me work.”