POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 37, 12 February 1904, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

YESTERDAY. (Before Mr E. Ford. J.P., presiding, and Mr J. Catchpole, J.P.) A Sad Case. —Emily Nesbitt, a married woman, pleaded guilty to assisting in the management of a brothel in Hobsonstreet. She told the Court that her hnsbanil was away, and he had to keep her three little children. The Bench decided to deal leniently with the accused, and she was ordered to come up for sentence If called upon within six months. (Before Mr A. S. Russell, J.P., and Mr A. Bruce, J.P.) Row About a Hat.—Thomas Brennan was bound over to keep the peaoe and pay costs on a charge of assaulting Albert Neary. The latter complained that Brennan, who lived In his house off Lornestreet, took one of witnesses' hats and refused to return it. Later in the day he met Brennan In the kitchen, where they had a tussle, during -irhich he cut the wit nesses' clothing with a knife. He had to be medically treated afterwards owinc to the way in which he was knocked about «i r e D hat n '"a 3 aIS ° ch ' Arsed with stealing