CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4308, 16 December 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, December 16. (Before his Worship the Mayer and A. Mercer, Esq., J.P.’s.) •Drunk and Disorderly.—Charles Macarthur was fined 10s, with the alternative of forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for this offence; and Thomas Melville and John Anderson were respectively fined 6s, or twenty-four hours in gael. Assault.—John Anderson was further accused of having assaulted Constable Walsh while in the execution of his duty Prisoner, a powerfully-built man, said he knew nothing of the matter. The constable said that upon his proceeding to arrest Anderson for being drunk, the accused made a violent assault upon him, and kicked him severely. A scuffle ensued, and the constable was thrown down and hurt so much as to be rendered almost unfit for duty. It was only by the combined exertions of himself and three others that accused was at last got to the station.—Prisoner was fined 10s, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. A Rambler.—Hannah Brown was brought up charged with having been found lying in a back yard off George street about 4 o'clock this piorning.—The constable deposed that he found the accused rambling about the streets this morning with, nothing on her head, and upota his questioning her she could give no satisfactory account of herself, but ran into a backyard, upon which he arrested her. She was not drunk, but was a little excited.—Accused sadly wanted to be allowed to kiss the Bible as an evidence of the fxuth of a statement which she volunteered ; «vd upon being told that form was not necessary, swore meet emphatically that she was running about to find a dootor to attend on a friend of hers who was in an interesting condition.—The Bench dismissed the case, and cautioned Hannah' not to come before them again. Maintenance.—Daniel Berry was again brought up charged with neglecting to obey an order of the Court requiring him tt> support his wife.—Berry stated that he had come to an arrangement this morning with his wife to live together, and the case was adjourned till Monday morning to see if his good intentions would be carried out.