POLICE COURT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10786, 13 October 1900, Page 5

POLICE COURT.

ALLEGED RECEIVING OF STOLEN PROPERTY.

On October Bth. Henry Amiss was alleged to have received a lady's gold watch, value £5, knowing the .same" to-have been stolen. Mr Donnelly appeared for the accused in Court yesterday. Inspector Ellison asked for a remand till Thursday next, as the principal witness'was remanded till that day, Messrs J.,Sopp and.E. Skog granted the; remand, and allowed accused bail—two sureties in £25 each. FURIOUS DRIVING. A little before four o'clock on the afternoon of September 29th. Alfred Walker, a cabman, was asked by two ladies to drive them to fthe railway station in time to catch the four o'clock train. ■- He managed to catch the train, But he'had to gallop nis horse in order to do.it. According to the police his pace back from tli-e railway station was also very fast. Walker was fined 20s and costs. TAMPERING WITH A GAS LAMP.

Constable Cullen, on, the evening of October Ist, saw two boys near a lamp-post at the corner of Fern- road and Ollivier's road. One of them was Percy Saddkr, 14 years' of age. and the other Herbert Wright, 11 years of age. The constable sew the boy Saddler ciimV up ■the' lamp-post and 'light the gas. He thereupon chased the boy, and when he caught him lound that he had a cord stretched across the footpath. When the constable pulled tha> string the gas light went out. The.string, was stretched across the road in such a way that any passing person upon, striking • the string must put out the light. In answer to the Bench, Constable Cullen said that he did cot spank the boys, as he never did that. Mr J. C. Bopp said that the Bench considered that it was a trivial case to come before the BencK, When he was a boy he would have got.v Hiding for such a thing. Inspector Ellison explained that the case was brought before the Bench to check such practices by other boys. The Bench discharged the boys.

THEFT.OF A CHEQUE. John Duncan Greig, who was charged with having stolen a cheque for £2 17s 6d, belonging to George Batstone, elected to be dealt with summarily, and pleaded "Not guilty." Batstone, who was staying at the Rotherfield Hotel, had the cheque in his trousers pocket, and though it was still there when he went to bed on Monday night. The next morning he found it was gone, ar.d as he was certain no one could have entered his room during the night, he must have lost it before he returned to tho hotel in the evening. The accused had presented the cheque at the bank in the morning, and was then detained and arrested. The Bench sentenced the accused to 14 days' imprisonment.

INSULTING LANGUAGE. James Wilson complained that Mrs Ellen McQuinn had used insulting language towards him at Sydenham on October sth, and he applied for sureties of the peace. The evidence was very contradictory. Their Worships ordered"the defendant to find one surety in £25 that she would keep the peace for six months. ;