POLICE COURT.—Friday.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3404, 13 June 1868, Page 5

POLICE COURT.— Friday.

[Before William Young, Eiq., and J.H. JEoaNi.Esq , J.P.I.] Drunkenness. — Mary Robinson, William Wilkinson, and James Sullivan were mulcted in the usual penalty for drunkenness. Assault. — A charge of assault preferred by Timothy Reardon against George Freer was dismissed, there being no appearance of either party. Threatening Language. — Edward Mooney was charged by Minnie Mooney with having threatened to take her life, in consequence of which threat she was afraid to go at large. — Prisoner pleaded not guilty. — Minnie Mooney deposed : I am the wife of Edward Mooney, the prisoner. He has threatened my life, and says he will be revenged on me. He has been watching the house every night since he came out of gaol, — the last occurrence was the night before last, when I had to run into Mr. Waters' s shop to get out of his way. He attracted a crowd and called me foul names. I have not lived with him for 11 months. He has not supported me for over two years. Last Christmas, when T met him in Victoria street, he pulled out a sheath knife and said he would stick me with it. lam in bodily fear of him. — Prisoner deposed that his wife was living in her mother's house, in Shortlaud street, in adultery with another man, and that the present charge was laid to get rid of him. — The prosecutrix denied the truth of the statement. — The Bench ordered defendant to find two sureties in £10 to keep the peace for six months. Lunacy.— Jane Auld and Walter Green were charged by Sergeant Evers as being persons liable to become dangerous to themselves and others. On the testimony of Drs. Nicholson and Stockwell, they were adjudged to be of unsound mind, and committed to the Lunatic Asylum. Habitual Drunkbnness. — Margaret Brainsbury was convicted, on the testimony of constable Will, of a breach of the Vagrant Act, 1866, by being a habitual drunkard, having been three times convicted of drunkenness within the preceding twelve months. — Mr. Naughton remarked that the Act under which the information had been laid rendered a person liable to three months' imprisonment foe three offences of drunkenness within twelve months preceding arrest. The prisoner had, however, been thrice convicted of drunkenness within the past two months.— The Bench awarded the extreme penalty, and sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment with bard labour. StealingJa Watch. — James Rodgers was charged by John Sullivan with stealing a ailyer watch from off the cutter ' Frances,' lying alongside the Custom-hoftje-street Wharf, the property of the said John Sullivan. — Prisoner pleaded guilty. — Mr. Naughton said that the watch had been recovered, and that the prisoner had not come under the notice of the police before. He was sentenced $o oa,e month's imprisonment, '

Assattlt.— James Chllaghan was charged by Robert Napier with having, in Queen-street, on the 6th of April latf, assaulted him by striking him on tbe heart with a life preserver. — Defendant pleaded guilty to striking him with a riding whip, *nd expressed his willingness that the cose should be at once disposed of. The Bench, however, decided that the extent of the offence should be proved.— Robert Napier stated that about two months ago be had on several occasions been engaged by tbe defendant to clean his boots. The sum due for services thus rendered amounted to Is. 6d., and when he solicited payment from defendant he received from him instead " a crack" on hia head with a riding whip, which nearly J knocked him " back' ards."— Defendant, in addressing the Bench in a rambling speech, stated that he always understood that a gentleman staying at an hotel had his boots cleaned free of charge, and, seeing prosecutor outside, engaged him to clean his boots, for which he, to his (defendant's) astonishment, demanded payment. Prosecutor was very importunate and insulting, and the punishment he had meted out to him was only what he richly deserved. — The Court ordered defendant to pay a fine of 20s. and 11s. 6d. coats, a demand with which he at once complied. Obsobnb LA.Naoi.aß. — A. charge of obicene language against Laurence Donoghue, by Lewis Garnaut, was dismissed in the absence of the proiecutor. Mr. Nausjhton conducted the proseoution in each case, if£ This conoluded the business