POLICE COURT.-This Day.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 207, 3 September 1886, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-This Day.

(Before Mr H. G. Soth Smith, R.M., Dr. Purchas, J.P., and Mr Powell, J.P.) Drinkenness.—One person was punished for this offence. Unable to Pay.—Emma Scott was charged with failing to contribute toward* the support ot her child in the Industrial School, but pleaded that she had not the means to do more than support herself.— Constable Hutchinson deposed that the accused had two houses at Devonport, that she went out washing, and that she had two grown-up sons.— Defendant was called, and said the houses belonged to her Eons, from whom she got very little assistance. She could not pay anything at all.—Tho Bench adjourned the case for a week, at the same time recommending Sergeant Pratt to make further inquiries about the houses.

Withdrawn—-The charge of assault preferred by William Thomas Payne agaiDst James M Connoll, and which arose out of the recent disorderly scene at Mr Dargaville's meeting in the City Hall, was called on.—Prosecutor said he wished to withdraw the charge, on the promise of defondant to pay all costs. Connell undertook to do so, and -the case was struck out.

A Boys' Quarrel,—Albert Brown was charg. d with assaulting George Hart by striking him. It appeared from the evidence that the two lads were in charge of adjoining stalls. Brown amu6ed himself by calling Hart "Jew," while the juvenile Hart retaliated by nicknaming his tormentor *.' Cheesey." Brown had a further grievance that Hart informed his employer that he (Brown) was in the habit of leaving his stall. This was admitted by Hart. Brown did not deny that he had struck Hart.—The Bench dismissed the case.

No License. — Andrew Austin was charged with slaughtering a bullock without a license.—Mr Browning sad this was virtually a rehearsing of the case heard on the 2Sth inst. Tho police had no desire to go on with the case, and Inspector Thomson said he knew nothing about it. He asked that the condition be imposed that if the defendant wero successful ho should be entitled to his costs.—The Bench did not Bee that any conditions could be imposed.—Mr Browning pleaded not guilty, and asked for an adjournment, and in order that the caso might bo heard by His Worship, he asked that it bo taken on Saturday week.—Mr Brassey appeared for tho prosecutor, and said the information was laid with tho full knowledge and concurrence of Superintendent Thomson. Ho asked that the case should not bo delayed further than next Monday. — AoJ journod till Monday. A Quack. —Samuel Hood, charged with wrongfully representing himself as a doctor of medicine, and practising as such, did not appear, and as it transpired that he had accepted the alternative given to him recently, and had left tho colony, the case was struck out. Assadlt, —A charge of assault, preferred by George Whisker against Chas. Richardeon, was adjourned till Monday next. Withdrawn. —In the case in which a little girl named Pickard was charged with larceny, Mr E. Cooper stated that it was the desiro of the prosecutor (Mr Levy) not to call any evidence. The child had b -en examined by Dr. Kendcrdine, who thought sho was not exactly "right." Sergt. Pratt added that if the caao had gone on he believed the evidence wouldshow that somebody else who was mixed up with the affair was more to blame than the accused. The charge was therefore withdrawn. >