CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 7432, 30 January 1888, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Saturday, January 28,

(Before Messrs R, Paterson and W. Langlands, J. P.s.)

IIErREHENsiiiEE Conduct. —John Jamieson, a blind match-seller, was charged with disorderly conduct in the hearing of persons passing in the public streets. —From the evidence it appeared that the accused sat on his doorstep at a very late hour on a recent night and behaved in a very objectionable manner, using offensive language, and throwing bottles and pieces of wood among the people who were attracted to the spot by the noise that he was making. He was intoxicated at tho time.—Accused said that he was an old soldier, and that on account of his infirmities he was the butt of a number of larrikins, who annoyed him in every possible way when he was at home,— The Bench said it was pitiful to sec a man like accused in such a position ; it appeared that he had been previously fined by the Court for a similar offence, hut they were disposed to see what mercy would do in this instance, and would therefore discharge him, with a caution that if again brought up on a similar charge he would get a double penalty.—A similar charge against accused’s wife was dealt with in the same manner.

Neighborly Amenities. Hermann Boring was charged by Mary Robinson with using obscene language towards her.—The complainant stated that her premises and those of the defendant adjoined each other ; and that defendant was in the habit of leaning over the fence, smoking a long pipe, and calling her a “ dirty old sow ” and other objectionable names ; also of advising her to clean herself before she showed herself out of doors. The defendant behaved in this way solely because witness’s husband owed him some money for a few months. Defendant said that complainant was a most disreputable character, and was always drinking and making a disturbance. He once told her to “ shut up ” and go away and clean herself.—Complainant: If you call me “a carakter,” I will make you prove it. —Defendant : Ido call you “ a carakter.” —Sergeant O’Neill deposed that the complainant was a woman of intemperate and eccentric habits; she was, indeed, half mad. She had been locked up for drunkenness. —The case was dismissed.