RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2014, 18 June 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before W. Feaser Esq., R.M.) ■ imUNKENNESS.' Eliza Sinimoncls was charged with having been drunk and incapable in Pollen street, .Shortland, on the 17th instant. His Worship : Back again? Fined 20s or 24 hours. Jane Kelly was charged with having committed a similar offence. This woman is the mother of the former-defendant; She had como down from Auckland t6 see her son, and a little drop had V overcome her." Fined in the usual amount. A TEUANT. Bernard Morrow w?s charged with that ho did on or about the 20th of May unlawfully abscond from -the Industrial .School at Auckland. Mr Bullen. said the boy had been com.'mitted from this Court on the- 6th- of January, 1874. He had heard 'from the schoolmaster "that the' boy was almost incorrigible, and on leaving this time had wandered from place to place* having been to Onehunga, the Manukau Heads, sleeping under houses, and anywhere else he could, and being fed by other boys." -. His Worship questioned the defendant as to why ho, had run away, but could elicit nothing satisfactory. He ordered him to be whipped, and sent back to the Industrial School for four years. WANTING A COLUH. John E. Dodd' was ;charged that he, being the owner of a dog, did unlawfully allow the same "to be at large in Grey street, Shortland,. without a ticket for the current year being appended thereto. • Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined ss" and costs. '• The Court then adjourned.