POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1661, 15 June 1875, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

(Before C. O'NeUl and Charles J. Marshall, Esquires, Justices of the Peace.) THE BROAD ROAD. Cornelius Anderson, in a half - clothed state, was charged with drunkenness, and fined 53. and costs.

VAGRANTS

Henry Redford was charged with vagrancy; also with assaulting Constable Moor while in the execution of his duty, on the 14th insfc.

The prisoner said it was a falsehood; he was a farmer at Wairoa, and never got into such a' blessed mess before.

Two constables deposed to the hideous nature of the language used. He denied assaulting Constable Moor.

The constable deposed that the prisoner kicked him on the breast and bit his fingers nearly off. Constable Winslow swore that he saw Moor's finger in prisoner's mouth. He bit and snapped with all the ferocity of" a mad dog. He reminded him that it was the business of dogs to " bark and bite," not the mission of animals in the form of man. Prisoner then snapped at him, but he eacaped prisoner's teeth. Prisoner still protested that he was innocent.

The Court considered the case proved, and fined prisoner 405., or one month for swearing, and one month for biting Moor's finger, which was considered a very serious offence.

BILLY KEILLY,

William Reilly, an elderly man, was brought up under the Vagrancy Act with seeking to impose on William Forsdike by a fraudulent . representation, with a view to

obtain money under false pretences, on. the 14th inst. Prisoner sued for mercy ; he said he wag a labouring man who had been in the colony twenty-five years, and was never in such a predicament before, and he begged the Court to dismiss an honest man who would neither rob nor steal, but who intended, as he always had done, to live by toil. |f *W Mr Broham had nothing to urge against &k ,* the poor man ; said he was willing to with- '& draw the cbarge. , Withdrawn accordingly. THE SWAG. Divid Power was charged with stealing 2 blankets, 2 pair trousers, 5 crimean shirts, brushes, socks, and others-tides, value £ the property of Edwin X. O'Haurahan, on the 16fch instant.

Prisoner &aid he found the swag, and did not prig it. It being proved that prisoner stole tie swag, he was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

A MAT* OF IIAKT XAirES. Frederick Charles Prince James Richard Hindlay, was charged with stealing a silver watch, value £6 10s he being a bailee of the same, the property of John H. Spnr, at Kihu, on the Ist instant. Mr Devor'e sppeared for prisoner. Mr Broham said the witnesses in this case bad not been able to reach Auckland yet, as the boat had not arrived. ■. • The prisoner a respectable looking young man. was remanded until the 24th instant: sureties, -himself in £100 and two others in £50 each. This was all the business.