POLICE COURT.—Monday.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4794, 7 January 1873, Page 4

POLICE COURT.— Monday.

[Before his Worship the Mayor.] Drunkenness —Isaac Bryant, Patrick Cox, and William J. Lloyd, convicted of this offence, were each fined 10a. and costs, or 14 days' hard labour ; and Richard Dick, John Rosa, Thomas Kennedy, Alice Hoskin«, and John Watson, charged with the same offence, were sentenced as usual. LarCEMES. — f Alice Hoskins, charged ■with stealing one pair of trousers, the property of Charles Goodwin, Mount Albert, was found guilty, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Thomas King was charged with stealing a black coat, four white shirts, four pairs socks, two handkerchiefs, w orth £3 —The prisoner pleaded not puilty, averring he was a victim to circumstance* — As the piosecutor had left on Sunday by the 'Nevada,' on his vray to America, the case was withdrawn. — The prisoner was further charged with stealing a Crimean shirt worth Gs., the property of John Fitzgerald.— The prisoner again declaied he was a \ictim of circumstances —On the application of Serg< ant Pardy the case was remanded. Malicious Injury to Propfuty Act.— Thomas Cullen was charged, under this Act, with breaking a glass case, value £3, the property of v amuel Yountr, the landlord of theWaverley Hotel. It appeared that the prisoner was endeavouring to get np a free fight in the bar, and, in his endeavours to strike one whom he had got into a corner, smashed the case in question. — His Worship said that the Act was sufficient for convic tion without malice being proved. The prisoner was accordingly sentenced to pay damages and costs, or in default suffer 20 days' imprisonment with hard 1 ibour. Stealing Bacon. — Richard Dogherty was accused of feloniously stealing 201b. of bacon, the property of Walter McElwain, a farmer, residing at Waiukn. It appealed from the evidence that, as Mr. McElwain was returning home on the 2nd August last, the prisoner asked him to give him a lift up Queen-street hill. He refused to do so, and the prisoner walked behind, holding on to the tail of the cart. He observed him once or twice middling with the contents of his cart, but took no particular notice of his actions. The last time witness saw tho prisoner was near the windmill, and he first missed the bacon when he came to Seafield View. The tail-board of the trap was in, and the article could not have fallen out. The bacon produced in Court answered to the description of that which he lost.— The prisoner declared that he had fcund ifc in Upper Queen-street.— Eliza Dogherty, the daughter of the prisoner, saw her father with tho bacon, but didn't know when, as it was a long time ago. Asked him where he had got it from, when he replied that he had bought it for 25s. — Young Warren, shopkeeper, residing in the Karangahape Road, deposed that the prisoner had hi ought some bacon to him for sale — that produced in Court. He bought some ; eventually gave it to Sergeant Walker.— Sergeant Walker deposed to the ano^tof tho prisoner and tho recovery of the bacon. — 1'risonor was sentenced to three monbha' imprisonment with hard labour. Furious Drivivu. — James Tfandley was fined 10s. and costs for thi3 offence.