POLICE COURT-—Monday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4900, 31 July 1877, Page 5

POLICE COURT-—Monday.

[Before B. C. Baratow, Esq., K.M.] Deunkennkss.—One man, an old offender, received the usual punishment, with perfect A Stheet Bjiatvl.—Henry liarstow was charged with having conducted himself on. tho previous eveuing in a manner whereby a breach of the peace was occasioned. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, laying tho guilt upon another person. Ho asked for a, romand, in order that witnesses might bo .■summoned to npeak as to his innocence. The evidence of James Frederick Haultain was taken. He positively asserted that ho had. scon the prisoner lighting with his coit off. Tho prisoner was then remanded till the following day. Ai.leukd Larceny.—Samuel Fairwenthor was brought before tho Court on two charges of larceny ; iirst, with stealing a cumber of carriage springs, a set of joints fov hood of carriage, a dashboard, &c, worth together £4 ; second, with stealing a set of swingletrees ami one 'bus swingletreo, worth Us. The whole of tho articles were alleged to bo the property of John Jeffrey. Mr. Tylor appeared for tho prisoner, and pleaded not guilty. Sergeant-Major Mason applied for a remand until the following day, in order that a third charge of a like nature might bo laid against the prisoner. Mr. Tyler, on applying for the release of his client on bail, said it would not be denied that tho goods enumerated had been sold to Mr. Mackay, but tho ownership of thorn would bu disputed. The ewingletreea—tho prisoner instructed him—had been manufactured by himself, while the other articlos had boen given him by the prosecutor. SergeantMajor Mason said tho police version of the matter w.i 3 entirely different from that given by Mr. Tylor. Thero were several articles still missing, and if the prisoner were admi!'.cd to bail, the ends of justice might bo defeated. Ilia Worship decided to remand the caao till Tuesday, bail being refused. The .Kuj.inci Passion , .—William Callighan, a rtupeetablo-looking man, was charged with baring acted in a disorderly . manner on Sunday morning while in a state of intoxication. The prisoner said " I plead guilty, your Honor to a glass of whisky, nothing more." On tho charge being explained to him, however, he confessod that tho potency of tho " whisky" had incited him to conduct which might probably be. deemod disorderly. He was then charged with a broach of the Vagrant Act, by being an idle and disorderly person, and a rogue and vagabond, having been thrica convicted of drunkenness within tho preceding twelve iuonfclm. Tho prisoner indignantly denied the charge. He had .always carefully held aloof from tho society of loafers and vagabonds. He had however a love for a drop of " whisky," but the occasions when he drank to excess were very few. On tho previous convictions being proved by the Clerk of the Court, tho prisoner, amidst the laughter of the Court, entreated tho liench to make the sentencn nn light as possiblo. His Worship said the accused had been convicted of drunkenness live times in 1874, thrcu in 1875, three in 1576, and five times in 1877. Ho should, therefore, visit him with a sentence of three months' imprisonment with hard labour.