RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1755, 18 August 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY, \ (Beforo H. 0. Lawlor_and EL Goldr r - , * smithyJi'sjjaJ.l\-*0 " >\ ?$f #thari^fe|pS"d^plifa(ias $$$ Gl#, f%ai#barg^fo^^i||a4 of datfeMh ■^pi^lSv chaj^d %i|^>haviiig.| no^J^ible means of sutjport, flfiving beei^tSriously convicted as an idle and diiorderly person. ■ r:fe HS.' said' .Cri6onev«nd : pj^rflt^d-b.eenr'«ninmpned. some time in April last. The-woman and a prisoner named Scott evaded the BUiflpaonf aftd hjtd beelpa JEhel>usTjOfb£''l* loßgMufi*&.-$Mj woul<&^«t^ feeing alone if they had remained away, but they had returned to town to commence ,their old .game, and consequently" the -warrant had§ been pufc execution. TJiere was^lallong - v <ii»fc. b£ convictions against her. Constable Martin Furlong deposed— TBatr^ej fecQlleoted the 15th Apritlast. Knew** the pfiioAei'—sh'etnen resided m Eichmond-street, Shortland. At that, time visited the prispnerV house,, and: sawjM ivoraaii? nameSiMji.? Orl doming 1 out in company with a man. Prisoner! made her living by prostitution. That. was a matterpjfrpDinjonL of his from eer-' jtiajn f'act#|whi<M had|cpme to his notice, j On visiting the' House of prisoner on the j 16th April saw her in the..arms a of Scott, j <Slie| wat drunk/vstnd $cott |ras strying to i force Mr iik is.Jßh#"%aVonly- partly! dressed. Saw two men in a back room—! -one- of them in bed. The defendant com-; menced cursing witness, when Scott ran i her into a r00m.,. Had known defendant \ jineariycighl |^efi|s. (Pfis^neOsaill she j Bad not* been eight years in the colony.) j She had made her living by prostitution } during- that time. Had known prisonerj ' |6jl |>§\cpnvicted of vagrancy. The pri- 1 soner's house was looked upon as as brothel—very disorderly, and frequented; ""by women of disrepute. I Mr. Dodd er,oss-examined the witness, j *but-eUqited'vnotMttgp-'faTOl'able ;• to.: thei of 1^ K•' ?-*-—*■■■ * j Samuel Brennan, detective, deposed? thj*/-hfl 5 ha.d>knpwn the defendant about { six?*'y-eaf», a«d iurinj* that time she had i made her living by prostitution. Her! house in Eichmond-street on the 16th 1 Aprii a bro|hel, fi-|que|Jj^a b^jSros-l tftutea 'iand .Sc«livictfed^ thi*vfes. evidence was corroborative of that given! Jjy the previous witness.) _ ....... 1 ! '" °Samuel~lilcClutchey, residing in Eich-f mond-street near to where the defendant; resided,|fsave evidence to the effect that! I hV ahad" been* subpoenaed as a witness; 'against the prisoner for the charge in| * a April last. About that time h.e had spokenj |o Conftable/^PurroSg relaiiVe |o defen--'dant and"her"house^' The Kbuse""was very; noisy for a considerable time before she; leffcff H*d ik&iV- people going backwards ■ and forwards,"' but didn't know their! cfiaracter. Saw -a - wpman- com/ing out, 5 whA'giot', threje. mpnth-s/,: some time ago.; iKe general character was noisy, espe- \ cially at night, and witness and ? his w.ifej «T#fer6'; :f6r^somfe >) befdrej '-pl^sot!e*:-ieft^oaif . / ; \ ? \ ?i Mr.rißullen said the> wifne_SS}<«Vidently,' .'didr-not wish..to,say more.againstCthe iwo-: manithanhfi cpjild hetp.j^: ■! s-.s-fi -kti 1 A list ot previous cqnvi^oiis.wereput! injandSa record, of Qne/as^vidence.^;: 4! \ Mr. Dodd addressed the Court for de-l fenijant;'. He said thes% wa^noievidencV; to prove that ihe prjijsioner :was,i without.visible and lawful means of support at the? ;tirae the[(chargejijraS^a;id.. \\ The^evibus| .convictions not; denied.. f .-,^ A , ; A I■' \Tji6,^'encli^iieiajfce^ci^.yili^'; jp.fisbner tpj .'sii.^Siths^implpiSonmeitti;';^^ ' \ ''/..^'-'V'el'fepis jOP k';BAD'.dHifii&TaE.. ** \ 'A E^ward.Scptt was charged on warrant: jjtiat' he, bieing a convicted thief, waaj fpund;^n..a i^qu|ieJn'<Bpmp^nj^with.?persphs.; ;who Vhaye^ no, Jarful yisjble. means ofi jsupport, with' not being able to give a| good aeepu^t of his la,wful>,mean» f of sup-j Portland .a150,,,0f being; koUsei '.^^^apm^llmlawiui'occa'sion.' > ] Dofendaiit pleaded not guilty. { .^n r ihij| . ; ,case was similar^ Jo that produced' against the wpmanj •Olark, as tp'the^prispn^'s^b^ing^fpund inj a nouio in Eichmond-'streßt, on tne 16th| ...April? if Deteotiyof; Brfennln proved the i previous conviction' agiiinsib the prisoner.! ..Prisoner, in defence^ said hejepas only? fefMrsj, Clart'sjiduse onatiiight^ and a.i to the conviction for stealing the Tiplin,v :he:had;pleate^ said it wpuld f be, better Jor Mm. He had 'been 5 workingl in -s the busK during the^ .past;J&y r e. f mpnths, and had come down* tp receive liis money, when he was collared] :4 "Mr.: B(ilteh.*sliid, with'/refereHcb to this,* that prisoner when arrested on atoalin^ the violin had said that a servant girl at the hotel ha€-given it to him and he badsold it, when he (Mr. - Sullen) laid that rfp"^esxf:\ ' fi|"; %4~. ''0 ' - i ;Pri»^neEi;was sentenced^tftr onrmonth | •inipsispnTO|nt, when he requested that he; *%igntfb| c|nnimitted to Auckland. /■ APPLICATION FOB TEANSFEE OS 1 LICENSE. I """ An adjourned application was to have been^fmjidcl Ibfftranslef :of| tjtitt licensef of thefCote^House H^tel>'from.tSamuej r Ypu'ng ,to Kenneth Brown, but there was |:ntf:.ap|)earaftce of.counsel representing the parties/ana it was ordered to stand ove| -till to-morrow. 1 y(|ou|tadjqttyned. f;r jj