R.M. Court.—This Day.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4660, 14 July 1886, Page 3

R.M. Court.—This Day.

(Before P. Fulton, Esq., J.P.) DEXTNK AND NO MEANS OF SUPPORT. Mary Alico Ray was charged with drunkenness and having no lawful visible means of support. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the first offence, but not to the last. The accused said that she had had only two drinks, and it got into her head. She was very sorry for it. Inspector Bullen said that it was only a short time back that this woman had been charged with having kept a house of illfame. Sergt. O'Grady stated that he had known the accused for a considerable time, and that she had a bad character. She kept a house of ill-fame in Shakespeare-road. When she was arrested on a former occasion for having , kept a house of ill-fame, upon her discharge she said that she would leave the district. She had gone as far as Waipawa, but returned shortly after. Constable Foster also stated that he had known the woman for some years, and during , that time she was continually drunk. Her husband had left her owing to hor having kept a house of ill-fame. There were eleven previous convictions against the accused. The woman utterly denied the last charge, and said that she was a hard working woman, and that a great lot of lies were told about her in Court. The accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on both charges.