RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2817, 23 February 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIB'J)AT. (Before W. Fraser, Esq., K.M.) PBUNKENNEBS. Three individuals were charged with drunkenness yesterday. Two of them were on bail, and failing to appear, their buil was forfeited. The other pleaded guilty, and was finrd 10s and costs, or 2A hours' imprisonment. INDECENT BBHAVIOtTB. ! Sarah Cooper was charged that, she beinj» a common prostitute, did behave indecently in a public plac;-, to wit, Pollen street, Thames,jon the 20th instant. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr Bullen said that the defendant was charged under the Tagraney -Act. Constable Haslett, sworn, deposed~»l was on duty in Pollen street, Giaharastown on the night of the 20th inst. It was a wet night. Near Maroney'a shop there is a verandah over the footpath. I saw the defendant at about half-past eleven, lying under the verandah. There was a man there. The defendant was lying on her back ,on the footpath. (The evidence disclosed'a state .of things details of which are unfit for publication.) The defendant said the man, was going to ruin her, and the man said she had fallen down and taken a Gt. She was not in a fit when I came .up. They were both drunk. I went for Constable Kennedy, and we arrested them. When we were going down the street her clothes fell off, and I pulled them up. She said the man was her brother. - ■ .

To defendant:■'. Your under clothes fell Constable Kennedy, sworn, deposed—l recollect going to the assistance of the last witness on Wednesday night. I came to the verandah of Maroney's, Pollen street. I there saw the acocuied. She was lying on the footpath, and there was a man kneeling over her. Bhe was drunk. The man said she was in a fit, and he was taking care ot her. She said the man was her brother. I assisted the other constable to bring her to the station. Her under clothing fell down. Detective Brennan, s«rorn, deposed—l know the defendant who resides at Para* wai. When she was., brought to the station on the night in question she said that the man was nor brother. She formerly gained her living by prostitution in Auckland. She was married lately, but there is no change in her conduct. The man who was with her is a white man. The defendant said that she might be a drunkard, but did not think she had committed the offence she was charged with. If His Worship would let her off this

time, for her husband's sake she would never.appear again. His Worship said it would be better both for her own and her husband's sako for her to have three months' imprison- ! ment. She had promised him the* same thing before. APPLICATION SOU MUSIC AND DANCING. - James Thompson applied to be allowed to have music and dancing in his licensed house, the Thames Hotel, on the 25th nnd 26th instants. There being no objection on the part of the police the application was granted. Court adjourned.