CITY POLICE COURTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4741, 28 April 1877, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURTS.

Wednesday^ 25th April.

■H (Before I. N. Watt> Esqi, R.M;)

Drunkenness..—For ,this offence, James Abrama, and John Sullivan we each 1 fined ss, with the usual alternative.' ■■ ■• '-- ; >;

A Eittle Waip.—Beatrice- -Barron (7) was charged with being a neglectedchild.'. She" had been found .wandering about Grange street. Having stated that her mother was a Ronian Catholic, the accused was committed to the Industrial School for.two.years, to.T)e brought ■ap in the Eoinan Catholic persuasion; Breach of the- BrEt AWSi _Hg nr y Harding ■was charged with having allowed timber to project xcore than two feet over the sides of a vehicle in Princes street. The case was again adjourned till Monday, in order; that the defendant may secure the attendance of hi 3 counsel/ r; : c\ r -- -■ ■ ;

Tbtobsday, 26th April: :- (Before I. IT. Watt, Esq^, R.M.)

' -pBnNKENNESS.-^HenryrDryden/Jchn Bain, Nicholas Foot,. Charles Restaux, John Dick- : son, and John-Moffatt,-wore each fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment. Jane Allison^ a young woman, pleased not guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and said,:; "Anyone can seethat.l. am a respectable girl." She complained of having been too freely supplied with three-penny beer and spirits by Mr and Mrs Porter (of the Britannia Hotel),- in .whose employment she had been engaged as cook. She was father excited,, and in referring to Mr Porter, said, " I will.burst his boiler yet." The arresting constables' proved that Miss "Allison had been very drunk and disorderly, but the ;case was remanded,.in order that Mr Porter .may be called as a witness. - -.

; .MiBBEHAYIOUR.~Wmiam Henry, alias Joim. ; Thomas, charged with using profane language jand challenging people to fight,-, was fined 20s, [or seven days' imprisonment. ~ ." ■'.. \ Insulting: Language. — William'- Edward I Price, railway constable, was charged with ihaving, on. the 21st April, used abusive and [insulting language to John Mickle, expressidnver. .Mr Lewis appeared for the complainant, and Mr Moua't for the defendant: John Mickle. deposed that he was engaged by 'Mr Taggart to take the ..Governor's luggage gom the Dunedin Eailway Station to j?ern HilL Ihe.otherexpressmen disjputed the complainant s right to take the luggage away, and,as he w»s about to remove it, the-de-fendant came up and said, " Dr jp that luggage ! ; You are not engaged." Witness replied, °'Tarn. The defendant then said, "You area" bar! You are fit to swear anything." The ;Governor's attendants and several ■: expressmen were;.- present '■" at the time ,the scene occurred. Witness eventually ■ got ithe luggage, and took it to Fern Hill. Wit mess would not blackmail anybody'forthe pur;ppse of getting express loads, as he could do a ihard day's work.—Arthur Ford, express driver, 'deposedthat he was present when the" Governor arrived z-t the Dunedin Eailway Station. ■Witness had been engaged by the complain ant to assist him vz removing the Governor's luggage. Mickle told the Governor's valets that he had been engaged to remove the luggage, ;which the other expressmen were all trying: to 'get. The"defendant came up "and said, " Don't ■believe a word that Mickle Erays. .He is nothing but a liar." The Governor's attendants expressed their surprise at the conduct exhibited when the luggage was being removed from tlio railway station.—W. H. Taggart deposed that he engaged the complainant to remove the Governor's luggage from the Dunedin Railway Station to Fern Hill.—This closed the case for the prosecution.—Frederick William ;Price, Eailway Constable, deposed that he was appointed to look out for the special train wi^h the Governor on the 21st ApriU ''■'■ Mr Montagu 'Pym, the auctioneer, who was in the Governor's carriage, replied: in the affirmative when witness asked him "if Downham was to take the luggage." The parcels clerk came up and said, "Mickle is taking that luggage away." Witness then said, "It is wrong, because Mr ■Pym says that Dowriham is lo take it." Witness did not say that the complainant waflC'a liar." His position would - not- permit him, to say it. _He did not hear anything of : the ■•■ kind. He " merely '■-' said, ""It's all nonsense: JDownham is to take thi<s away." When the Governor"? valets, we're leaving the Dunedin RailwayI;Station, they stated that "a cabmen or an.expressman with a cap on " had made use of the language imputed to witness.—^Charles Downham, express driver, deposed that the defendant said be was "to take the luggage for the Governor." rWitness made some contradictory and -farcical expressions in the witness box^ -Heeaid, "some .one said something to the effect that Miclds was a liar, but what it was I could not say.: It was not Price. Ido hot know the word used. It was not liar. It was something in the die ternary. _ George: Tilbury, spoke the word in the dictionary. It was not the word Jiar."— Thomas Butchart, station master, deposed that :Miekle told him that Mr Taggart had infitiuctedhim to. remove the Governor's luggage to- Feru HilL Constable Price then came m >nd said that Downham was to take the luggage, iln the absence of a written-order: from either ;party,:-witness allowed Mickle to take-the luggage away.; ■;> Witness; did 'not hear' the [language imputed to the defendn,nt, with whose ;general conduct he was BatigfietL—TGeoi'ge Til•Jbury, expreas proprietor, deposed that oh the 21st April, there was a deal of wrangling amwg the whole of the expressmen at the Dun.

edin; Railway Station. They were aU" excited, about the Governor's luggage. **' Witness did; riot hear the word. ■',liar■ used.. Ha-Baid; something himself. He was " jollying "a little'bit. " Miekle- said that he was the party engfiged, and that he " did not come theie with a lie in his moutb." "Witness replied," No, Jack, you could hot do such a thing,' 1 because "he is such an innocent" Witness.was "tabing a" rise out of the complainant."— His Wor ship, considering,that the evidence was very contradictory/ and that fch'ers was ft balance in j favour of tha defendant,' dismissed the case. ! j Bukglaby.—Thomas Lambert, a young man, was charged with having, on the 22nd April, | fsloniously broken into the shop of Philip Richard Tiltman, of St. Andrew street, Dunedip, aud stolen therefrom, jive, coats,, seven waistcoats,' four pairs^trougere, three shirts,and' two pairs blankets, valued'at "'L3, the property of the said Philip Richard Tiltman. The cqm r plainant deposed that he' left.his shop all right at 10 p.'in. oii Saturday.-At 8 '&.m.oa-lSjiiida r y he found that the catch belonging to tEo front door had been forced, the goods tumbled about, and some of them stolen. Witness had identified the goods produced in Mr Curran's stable;" at the North-east Valley. Buchanan Scott, fruiterer, residing in St. Andrew street, de posed that at noon on Sunday last he sawthprisoner coming down the right-of-way near Mr Tiltman's shop, trying ..the doors and looking into, the .windows.: Witness then saw the prisoner: sitting down on: .the :doorstep. ■ Alexander Henderson, detective,'deposed that on Wednesday he went to the North-east Valley; >>nd; was: accompanied by the .prosecutor. ' Witness; saw the prisoner at the residence of Mr. .Curran, and said to him," I want' to have a, look at that bag you brought down on ; horße;back yesterday.": JSe went with witness to the 'stable, and said,," Yes,. I have: got some jclothes in the. bag; which I purchased from • a man for 255." The' prosecutor identified the articles produced as Ha property. The prisoner ,«aid he purchased.the blankets produced froia ;Mr Jeffs, a dealer, who was nowin Court. This [closed the case for the prosecution. Henry jJeffs, general dealer, residing, in, Cumberland 'street, deposed that aeeblda 'waistcoat] pro;duced, # to. the prisoner,' but noli:the' blankets^ ■The prisonerjapplied to have" the case adjourned,, to the following day, in order tha't'fie ma'y.prp-" duce witnesaes.,, .The case was-accordingly adv ;journed.; niir^--i--.----'' '.■ ■. u..~ ■■ ; ... ■.;■'•■ :-vr ■ .'■ .

Vnr-I'iaDa.Tj 26TH APBlt.

j ;l: ; ;:;;;;(Be^^^Waltti ijsq.VßißLJCv,', I ; DnUNEENNESS.—Thos^Mbwbray -and'Alex. IGould'werfeeaCa' finsdSs, with the usual alters ■native. Jane" Allison/' '6n-"!remandj' having1 j stated that slie.'-had to' receive ;Ll4 for six ;| months' -wages from her employer, was dis-t-missed with a caution.

| yAGHANCT.~F6r soliciting"alms, an ableibodied man named Joan Thomson, who apjpeared to be suffering from the effects of exces!sive r drinking,, was eentence/l to seven?days' iimpriaonmeht/witb. hard labour. '"' '" si ; . i'pDL Tongues. —T?6i wing bad language,in :a lane' .'oft Walkerstreet, Alexander Xomiarfc, ;a:mere'ydutn;'was fiiied 20s, or seven .days' .im-; jprisonment.... Margaret. Williams was fined 40?; in default^ one month's imprisonment. .: - v, •' i A . Disorderly •—, Catherine ' Meredith,' alias' Murray;; charged with • misbar jhaviourin Princes street, was fiae'd de-r ■fault, onem6nth's;imprisbriment.'T;">• i. : Stealing. ~a. , Eing. ;—: Peter Sherry, < on1 >r& mand, was charged;with stealing- a ring valued; at2os,tha.property^ of John^^ PauVlieeiv'Tne ;prißoner hud pawned the ring.;, He said he had! 'purchased it' from a man. who would^deny.'the' transaction if lie were, brought..intalCburt.-rr^-iHia Worship sentenced .the, accused; tol one month's imprisonment, with hard l'abour.r—Pri-^ sbner: I cannot doany labour.— His Worship :• ;You must do such work as' you are'fit. for. r-' Prisoner: But'lamnofcfit for anything^—His .Woifsh'ip':, That will be'fpr 'the Gaol authdrities: ;todetermine. '." ".=■.'Ji'- ■■^•:>-"y':'«-:'''u-;\ ! . BoBGLAHY.-rrThomaSyLamberfc^ on remand, "was charged with stealing a quantiiyof second-; hand, clothes, the property of. Mr Tiltman.— .The ' prisoner-- called■ Alice - Burns.l; Thomas' !M'jEay,:proprietor'of the'1 Goldeii'Age Hptel,' ,andJ Henry Jeffs," to .prove that,he had; fieen,' .seen with some^of. the goods' produced befoireV 'the alleged robbery.—-In; response to the usual ] caution, the prisoner stated that he had honestly purchased the goods in question for 255. Hehad.been sent.to Gaol for-'threembnthsoa a' former occasibb, and he had served nine months1 and a^ortnight.—- He was 'committed to take, his trial at the "ensuing sessions; of the Supreme ■ .:: ;<i .v-.;.^.- ■■*•.: ..!! ■■-.- ;:; .r--:i-r...-.:■}

i Keeping the PEACK-^-Maria Fairbatik wss j charged-withhaving, on the 24tK April, "at tMi i^etiinßula,; used '-.provoking .".«u»'d -' insulting': jlangiiage to ' Jessie ' Paton. £l&"! .Worship]: (ordered.the, defendant to.find.two Bureties of I ;L5 eaohVtb;keep ;the peace for three inontbs. ; :; j