POLICE COURT.— Yesterday.
Before W. Fraser, Esq., R.M. Drunkenness. William Mclntosh, charged with being drunk, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s or ‘24 hours imprisonment. Vagrancy. —Ann Swift was charged with being drunk and incapable in Pollenstreet, Sliortland, on the ‘2lst instant, and also with being found at night in an unoccupied house oil Pollen-street, Sliortland, on the ‘2lst instant, without any lawful cx-cuse.—Defendant admitted bcingiu tins bouse, but said she bad only just done three months, and pleaded hard lo be let off this time, promising to leave the town before 5 o’clock, and not to come before the Court, again.—Air Biillen said that prisoner bad made the same promises on Friday morning, and on the, faith of what she bad said she had been provided with means to go and place her child with some one. Before an hour bad elapsed, however, she bad been found drunk. —The Iv.AI. said lie did not see the use of giving the defendant another chance. lie bad tried light sentences and heavy, and had let her off before on her promising to do belter, but the had carried on her present mode of living-until it became, a disease. For the first offence she was lined 10s or "24hours’ imprisonment, and for the second six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 90, 23 January 1872, Page 3
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218POLICE COURT.—Yesterday. Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 90, 23 January 1872, Page 3
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