CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4942, 4 January 1879, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, January 4. (Before I. li*. Watt, Esq., R.M.) _ Drunkenness.— Francis South was convicted and discharged; John Forbes was fined 10s. Petty Theft.— William Littlejohn, a young man, was placed in the dock charged with stealing a piece of timber of the value of Gd, the property of James G. F. Willington.—Accused's conduct in the box was most extraordinary, and as Inspector Mallard explained that his intellect appeared to be weak, he was remanded for medical examination. Jehus in Trouble.—Archibald Muirhead was charged on summons with having on the Ist inst. conducted himself in a manner calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Defendant said he knew nothing ©f the charge.—Detective Bain deposed that he knew the accused, who was a cabdriver. Witness was on duty in Princes street between the hours of midnight and four o'clock in the morning of the 4th inst. About one o'clock there were several hundred people in Princes street behaving in a most disorderly manner. There was st(.n.".-throwing, flour-throwing, and scenes of disorder. Accused was invariably in the thickc&t of the crowd.- Defendant denied that he ha.l thrown stones or been "pasting" anyone.—His Worship told defendant that being mixed up with a riotous crowd rcndorid him a principal. He was fin»d 40s, in d jfault seven days' imprisonment.—lames Smith and Wil iam M'Uuire, cab-drivers, were ; lu> fine 140s, in default Beveu days' imprisonment.

Inciting to Riot. ~ William Gawn, a carter, was charged with behaving himself m Princes street in a disorderly manner on the morning of the Ist inst—Detective Henderson deposed that he saw the accused conducting himself in a most riotous manner He had organised a band of tb.3 lowest larril kins he could collect, and was fighting and lashing everybody who approached him. He had- his coat off, and having obtained some flour from a grocery store" threw it at men and women indiscriminatelv Witness believed that defendant was the worst-conducted person in the street. Stones came freely from the direction of the crowd who were with him. By defendant ■ You organised a band of the lowest larrikins in the town—your usual companions.—Detective Bam gave evidence that he saw the defendant fighting. He commenced the disturbance.— His Worship inflicted a penalty 0 .« ,' m ,default one month's imprisonment, with hard labor.

Neglected Children.—Robert M'Lintuck (2 years) and Jes; ie M'Lin u (4 years) were brought before the Court as neglected children by their mother, who stated that her husband had deserted her and gone to Hew South Wa'es. She was anxious to take a situation.—The children were committed to the Industrial School for Beven years, the mother to be permitted to take them out when she was in a position to maintain them,