POLICE COURT.—This Day

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 1859, 1 February 1876, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—This Day

(Before R. C. Barstow, Esq., R.M.)

MERRY SOULS.

We ihrce Wont out last niizht to havo i> jolly spree, And found our noddles where ouf feet abonld be. Thomas Wilson and Walter Lean, for bning drunk and disorderly, weie fined 20s each and costs, and Thomas Burn 3, for being drunk, was fined "is and costs. LITTLE MARY. Mary Harrison, alias the " Lily of the Valley," was charged under the Vagrant Act with having no visible lawful means of support, and with behaving in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of tho peace. Prisoner said she was guilty, but uuder very peculiar circumstances. Her hufcbaucl did not como home and she went after him, and very likely made a noise. Mr Broham said, prisoner was drunk, and tho more sho was spoken.to, the more noiseshe made. ' Prisoner was fined 20s and costs. pat's sheltlr. Patrick Holland was charged under the Vagrant Act with being found in the bedroom of Edward Lysas.ht, of Hobson-street, without any lawful excuse. Prisoner did not remember anything about it; ho must have got into the wrong place ; he was looking for his cousin, Mary Anne, who resided there. ; • Prosecutor denied that prisoner's Mary Ann lived there. He was fast asleep this morning at half-past three, when he felt a strange hand passing over him, from his stomach to his toes ;it was not light; he leaped out of bed, and collared tha prisoner, who was a stranger to him. Ho g."^" The Court found prisoner'guilty, ana sentenced him to two months' imprisonment. ANOTIIEI.. William Swanson, was brought up on a similar charge, ho having been found last night, in tho houae of Levi Coupland in Lornc-street. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Levi Coupland, corn dealer, deposed that last night ho heard strange noises at the window. He got out of bed, struck a light, and found prisoner in his front room crouching beneath the window ; he said he merely wanted a night's lodging. Constable Graham deposed to taking prisoner into custody, he said he only wanted to sleep.. On looking over the list of convictions against the prisoner, the court found that they occupied one sheet of foolscap paper, and sentenced him to nine months imprisonment with hard labour. THE OILLESS LAMP. Mr Georgo Rhodes appeared in answer to a summons, charging him with failing to keep his lamp burning in Victoria-street on the night of the 27th instant. Mr Rhodes objected to plead guilty, ia the lamp should have been alight,, Sergeant O'Connor deposed that on the night in question the moon had failed; in giving forth her silver light, and Mr Rhodes' lamp, possibly for want of oil, had gone out, so that the passers-by had only the reflection from the lamp opposite to guide their feet: in the right way, and keep them from stumbling into the holes and indentations caused by the march of modern improvement. He turned his official eyes especially upon the unlighted spot, and was certain that from the going down of the sun, until his rising glory tinged the mountain tops with gold, there was no lij-ht in Mr Rhodes' lamp. His Worship was of opinion that the lamp was not lighted on the night in question, and fined defendant in the sum of 10_. and costs. Shis was all the business.