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

Daily Southern Cross, 7 November 1868, Page 7

POLICE COURT.— Friday. [Before T. Beek ham, Esq., R.M.]

Drunkenness. —William Tanaon and Edward Mooney were charged with being drunk, and w< ro punished in the usual manner. Obtaining Goods under False Prbtkncks.— Martin Scollia was charged with having obtaiu- d by false precences a Crimean shut and other at tide.-, the property of Mr. R. W. Dyson, draper, of Q-«een-streefc.—The;priBoner was further remanded in order to obtain the assistance of a material witness. Larceny.—Anne Shiels was charged with stealing a shawl,- value ten shilling*, the property of Mary Ann Miles.—Frisouer pleaded not guilty, and said prosecutrix gave her the shawl to pawn to get beer for her.—Prosecutri* deposed she whs a married woman. Her husband was up in the bush, ai.d for the last three nights witness had lived with the prisoner. About eight o'clock yesterday morning she missed her shawl from the foot of the bed. lb had been safe about balf-au-hour before. Accused the prisoner <f the theft, but she denied it. .Did not see the shawl again until it w is in the hands of constable Gamble. Gave information of her loss tv the police. —Elizabeth Drummond deposed th-.t she kept a dealer's shop in Wyudh am-street The prisoner went to her house about eleven o'clock the d?y before with the shawl produced. She said Bhe was hard up, and asked witnaßS if she would let her have four shillings on it, as she had had no breakfast. Witness lent her two shilling* on it.—Catherine Shiels deposed she was the daughter of the prisoner, and lived rvith her and the proaecutrix at the time of the robbery. Saw her mother take the shawl off the bed. Prosecutrix was outside at the time.—By the prisoner: I did not hear the proßeoutrix tell you to take the shawl and sell it to get some beer.—Mr. Naughton said the new Pawnbroking Act would come into effect on the Ist January next, and it would do a great deal to diminish crime, for thieves would be much more chary in stealing articles if they thought they could not dispose of them. The Act was a very stringent one, and wheu it came into force these loan offices would not have their present opportunities of receiving and disposing of stolen property.—l ho Court found the prisoner guiltjr, and sentenced her to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. This concluded the business.