POLICE COURT.-Yesterday.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1866, 1 October 1874, Page 3

POLICE COURT.-Yesterday.

(Before W. Ruber, Esq., E, 11.)

Drunkenness. —William Wilkinson, an old offender, was charged with having been drunk and incapable in Owen-street, Grahamstown.—He pleaded guilty. He had been teetotaller since March last. He drank some ginger wine yesterday, thinking it would do him no fiarm, but it took.effect upon him.—He. was fined 10s and costs.

Bbeiches of the Licensing; Begum-. tions, — Frederick Tetley was charged with neglecting to keep a'light burning; over his licensed house, the .Thames,. Hotel, from sunset on the 26th .'to, sun-" rise on the 27th instant.—He said it was lighted three' times during the night. There was water'in the gas-pipe, and he did not understand it.—He was fined Is and costs.—John Hendy was charged with unlawfully allowing alchoholic liquor to be drunk in his licensed house, the Bendigo Hotel, on Sunday, the 27th instant,' by others than travellers; and persons resident thereat sleeping therein. —He pleaded guilty.—Mr Bullen 'said that the offence .was rather aggravated. Two women were looking for. their, husbands, and found them at the Bendigo Hotel at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning,' when a disturbance ensued.—Defendant. said that he was in bed at the time.—' His Worship asked defendant whether it was he and his wife who went to his house, to see him yesterday.—The defendant said " Yes."—His Worship said. he was always suspicious of those who went to see him privately, considering;..,that there mu3t be something worse in. their cases than appears, and was always inclined to treat them more harshly.— Defendant said the men were never in the house before, and the times'were bad. He hoped his Worship would deal, leniently with him.—He was fined 40s and costs. .. \-