CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4136, 30 May 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, May 30; 1 (Before E. ff. Ward, Esq., and E. Paterson, Esq., J. P.’s.)

Drunkenness. : James Dean and Thomas Farrell were each fined ss, in default twentyfour hours’ imprisonment; Mary Forbbsj 40s, or fourteen days’. An Incorrigible Youth.— George Mbrrisey, eleven years old, 'was charged witjji

stealing Lt4 from a dwelling-house at Morniagton. On the application qf Inspector y Mallard, who stated that accused was moor- - .risible, he was remanded till to-morrow. *■ Under and Over.— Thomas Cross was « charged, with being beneficially interested in a a scheme in which prizesof moliey are com*; || peted for with dice.— $ playing at the game over seven. He stated not| made 5s by it.—He was fined 20s Costs, j g the Bench intimating their 'inj| a dieting heavy fines m any futulpxases ofl § gambling.—-She died were confiscated. 1 Theft From ah Hotel.— lsabella Daly \ was charged with steading a pair of opera- | glasses, the property of Henry Scott.—Fro- ( secutor, proprietor of the Newmarket i Hotel* stated *that~cm.4he~2lßt Jie, 4 missed from a parlor in hTslmuse the'glasses' ] produced.—Michael Sullivan, dealer, de- < posed that he bought the opera-glass pro- | duced .from accused on the 22nd inst. for 3s. —Prisoner stated IhalT she in the Cricket She was ■ to one month’s imprisonment*with hard ‘ labor. ' ! : ' '=’■ 'i > TM. LiOßNsiNd 'Ordinance. > Kingston, / b£;/i>he charged with suffering prostitutes xo.,^£Ceab... and remain iu his Hcensed hbtue.pn Miy 2 a., ‘ MrE.CobkftCfendedand pleaded not guilty. } —Sergeant Finnegan stated that he wm . standingat the Ootagon shortiyafter threp o’clock on the morning in question, when his attention i was attracted to a . noise of stones thrown at a window. A few.minutos afterwards / he saw some partiescomb round the comer of Stuart street and . entei defendant’s hotel. The bar was then lighted up. Witness and the constable afterwards knocked . at the: dppr and were admitted. In a room off '* the bar ijhey found three young men and three prostitutes. , The.latter Were .sittingdown; —Constable Gilbert gave comoborative evil deuce.—Mr Ward said the meaning of thb word ‘ .” had bpen defined by thb case of Hall v. Quinn.—lnspector Mallard had brought the case simply on a ruling pre-| viously given. In Police : v. Hancock it bacj been held in this Court that if these women were found sitting down in a licbused house they were they assembled.—Mr Ward said that that ruling was opppsed to a decision by the Supreme Court , He was hot on the Bench when tiiat.jdecision was, given.—The. Beach' were of opinion eyidence was yeiy frail. The women simply \ wont intp the. hotel and came but very shortly afterwards,! and there was no evidence as.to their being supplied with drink. Mallard stated-that, he had broUghtthe paSein con-' eequbhee of the in Hahcockfs oase,| wherein it had Been held/thatif the proati-j tutes were sitting down jtbey were held |oba there met. —ThedJench,..•yithput, calling bn the accused, could not see that thepolice had! : made but a case,, " fhey had nothing ,to .Isay} [ to the accused/ but' that there uto nothing? ! 'special the offence. The i missed, ; the Bench being tmabimbus that! ! there was lib charge. • - ] ; ' ~ |