POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 56, 7 March 1889, Page 5

POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

(Before Messrs W. Duncan and H. Ham mond, Justices.)

Drunkenness.—Two first offenders were fined tlie usual amount. Assault.— George Black, a boy about 14 years of ago, pleaded guilty to having assaulted Margaret Gray don by striking her on the arm with a billet of wood. He was further charged with having used obscene language towards Mrs Graydon Ho pleaded not guilty.-Mrs Graydon deposed to having seen the boy beating her grandson. When she stopped him he beat her with a stick and used the language complained of.-The Bench remarked that the lad ought to be flogged, but they had not the power to order it.— The Bench sentenced the boy to one week s imprisonment, and directed that he should be kept separate from other prisoners. Larceny of Boots.-Charles Harm was charged with the larceny of one pair of boots, value 10s 6d, the property of William White.—Prisoner pleaded notguilty.— W White shoemaker, Victoria-streeb, deposed that the boots produced were his D-cmertv He missed them about 5 o clock ?n Tuesday afternoon.-John Burchell deposed to seeing' the f accused about 530 o'clock coming out of Shoitts cioot way He was putting something into abU He then threw the bag into a case on the dray. The cart proceeded up the street, and upon the ?artet being told of the circumstance he threw the bag into the street, when ib was nicked up by a little boy named Edward ScKeowrE Vis boy deposed to gokjng up the bag and finding a pair of tiousors Siside He 2 ave the bag to Mr Bennett.Ac ting-Detec-tive Herbert deposed to arrestt_ the prisoner about 6 p.m. last luesday "-The Bench sentenced the prisoner ono -The Bench inflicted a fane of 5s aud costs.