SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 639, 22 February 1870, Page 2

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19.

(Before W, H. Re veil, Esq , R.M.) Emma Uevery, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 20s, or 48 hours' imprisonment. She was also charged under the Vagrant Act, with using obscene language in a public place, and was sentenced tp two months' imprisonment with hard labour. John Brown was charged .with being drunk and disorderly at Cobden on Friday last. The prisoner pleaded that he had been 48 hours' in the lock-up, and was discharged. He was also charged with resisting the police in the execution j of their duty, and was fined 10s, or 24 hours' imprisonment. Susannah Swanson, Elizabeth" Barron, and Fanny Tapscott, were all charged under the Vagrant Act with using obscene language in a public place, and were each sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. Richard Quinn was charged with, the larceny of a pair of boots of the value of LI 2s 6d, the property of John Manson and Co. Daniel Sheedy deposed : Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, I saw the prisoner leaning against Mr Manson's verandah posts. He every now and then looked queerly at me, and then walked up and down the street. I was splinting at him behind a newspaper I was reading because I suspected him of being up to something uot right. He left the posts, went to the window, aad took down a pair of boot 3, which he put under his coat. I called out, and he ran off, but I caught him before he got many yards. The prisoner begged of me to say nothing about it ; however, I took him back to the shop and handed him over to Mr Kent. The boots are like what he stole. Francis Kent deposed that he saw the prisoner at the verandah post, and afterwards in Mr Sheedy's custody. The boots produced are the same as were hung up outside the window ; their value is 22s 6d. The prisoner begged hard to be let off. He could not go for a policeman as he was alone in the shop and was engaged. Saw a policeman after the prisoner was apprehended. J. Maguire deposed that from information he received from Mr Sheedy he apprehended the prisoner, who admitted his guilt, saying he would not have done it had he not been drinking. Mr Kent afterwards gave him in charge. The prisoner, when asked what he had to say, replied that he. had only been about a week in town, and had been drinking heavily, otherwise he would not have done it. Sentenced to two months' imprisonment with iiard labour.