CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 5968, 28 April 1882, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

(Before J. Logan, Esq,, J.P., and J, P. Jones, Esq., J.P.)

A Hardened Offender.— Mary Oough, an old and wrinkled woman, was charged with being drunk yesterday. She loudly and continuously protested that she was innocent of the charge, but the evidence of two constables showed clearly that she had been very drunk, — She was further charged with being a rogue and vagabond, and on being asked how she pleaded to the charge she replied “I am too old to be a rogue and a vagabond. I have two hands, and I earn my bit of bread very hard and honest.”—Evidence was given to the effect that she was in the habit of wandering about the streets, that she had no means of supporting herself, and that when drunk she was an intolerable nuisance, She refused to question any of the witnesses, saying, to each: “I leave him to God—that Is the best man.” Records of previous convictions for vagrancy having been produced, the Bench fined her 5s or imprisonment until the rising of the Court on the first charge, and on the second they sentenced her to twelve months’ imprisonment.

AssaxjiiT.' —-Chang Ah Park was charged on the information of Leung Way with having assaulted him on the 25th inst. Mr Macgregor appeared for the complainant, and Mr B. Cook for the. defendant.—Complainant, a gardener, and a witness gave the following version of the affair: —Oh the afternoon of the 2oth inst. the complainant called at the defendant’s house in a lane near Princes street for the purpose of demanding the payment Of a debt that bad been owing for some time. Defendant not being in at the time complainant went into the next house to await his return. When defendant arrived complainant went oat to him and asked for payment of the account. Defendant commenced to swear and struck the complainant on the shoulder. Complainant retreating defendant lifted a chopper and block which be threw after him, and then caught hold of a bamboo, but was prevented from using it by some byestanders.— Defendant’s story was that when he came home the complainant called out to him to pay an account and commenced to curse and swear at him. Complainant attempted to force his way into the house, but defendant resisted the attempt by shoving him away. Defendant swore positively that he did not throw the chopper, which he said he only picked up when It was taken away by Wong Ah Tack. —ln giving his evidence Wong Ah Tack swore that he had never seen the chopper. —The Bench decided to dismiss the case.