POLICE COURT.—Saturday. [Before T Beckham, Esq., R M.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2259, 17 October 1864, Page 5

POLICE COURT.— Saturday. [Before T Beckham, Esq., R M.]

DKUNKEUNESS. Edwin Dearing and John Uinm, charged with thisoftence, pleaded guilty, and suffered the luual penalty. Wary Kenun, charged with being a common drunkard, was brought up under a warrant in consequence of her nou-appeaiance the pievious day. llio prisoner said if his Worship would overlook that offeneo she svonld go away to Coiomandol, and never ttouble his Woiship again, never; if she did, let him £>ive her seven yeais. His Woislup remarked, if there was any piospect of getting rid ot the woman then ho would dischaice her. The piisonor sai.l that her daughter's husband had a vessel of his own and had sent tor her. In reply to Ins Woiship, the Commissioner of 1 olice s«ud that her story was improbable, and that she was mi incorrigible dtimkaul. His Woislup to the piisoner : You shall have an opportunity of going away. 1 will discharge you tin;, time on condition of your finding two suioties of £30 each, for your good behaviour for the next six months. She was then rcinnv&l.

Jv/VUCXNY. John Shine was ch.uged with stealing a boiler, the piopeity of banmel Rout, value los., on October lotn. Samuel Rout, storekeeper, in Vulcan-lane, said that on Thuisd.iy last, at 12 o'clock, noon, there was a boiler outside his stoic under the wiudow, and ab half-past 2it was missed. No one in tho store had icmovedit, and witness, saw it next in the possession of the polite. It was the boiler produced. The piisoner wished here to plead guilty, bub said he never slole the boiler, wluch home man had givGn him. Johanna Maddox, wife of Henry Maddox, of the Cominmarut Transport Corps, saw the prisoner in. Chancery-street on Friday with the boiler produced, which she purchased from him for three half-crowns. Gavo the boiler to constable Lipaey. Constable Lipsoy deposed to receiving the boiler pioduced from the pievious witness. The prisoner was thtn in custody. The piisoner said it w/is his first offence. The magistrate leminded him thata similar offence was proved against him only the day before. The prisoner said he had ne\or been in the Couit befoie that time. lie was .sentenced, f( i Hiofiist offence to 9 months' imprisonment vith luid l.ibom, and for the second to 4 months' imprisonment with hard labour, the second sentence to co.umeuce ,it tho termination of the Jiibt.

a rowi «t;si\Ess. Thomas Glynn, luigeuc Banks, George Jones, and William Smith, young boy*, apparently under 12 years of age, were charged with stealing a quantity I of ducks, some of thoii the property of a Mr. McOsoii. They pleaded guilty, and the case wai remanded at the ieque-<t of the Commiisioner of Police to .Monday following Sevoial of the parents of the boys were in Couir, ami the father of Glyun, addressing the Bench, lejn.uked that he thought nothing but a good flogging would do the boy any good, as he had been only two days out of gaol when ho lan away from home. The Commissioner said he hoped to be able to find owiieis foi ail the ducks by Monday, which were at piesent very tioublcs-oine, and he had hard woik to keep them in.