POLICE COURT.
CHRISTCHURCH. Tiiuhsday, September 16. [Before 0. T, Ick and F. Hobbs, Esqs., J.P’b.] Drunkenness.—One man, for a first offence, was fined ss. Hobbes at Labqe,—John Cassim was fined os for allowing three horses to wander at large. Vagrancy.—The charge against James Sullivan was withdrawn, the police stating that ha had been admitted to the Hospital. The Chairman of the Charitable Aid Board (H. Thomson, Esq.) made a statement to the effect that Sullivan had been a perfect nuisance in the Old Men’s Home ; his repeated acts of insubordination and drunkenness made it impossible to retain him as an inmate j ha had been expelled only after frequent warnings. [Before Q. L. Mellish, Esq., E.M.] Destitute Children. Three children, two girls and a boy, aged respectively seven, five, and four years, were ordered to bo sent to the Burnham Industrial School for seven years, to be brought up in the tenets of the Church of England. Their mother, Clara Hart, had this morning received a sentence of seven days’ imprisonment under the Contagious Diseases Act, and their father had absconded.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2048, 16 September 1880, Page 2
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