CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11398, 15 April 1899, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

FIIIDAT, Al'MlL It. (Before Mr C. C. .Graham, S.M.) ! Breaking and Kntcnng.—Alexander. Blue worn charged witii breaking and entering the storei of Messrs M'Farlanc and Pcden, at the . ccriior of Hanover and George streets, on (ho lilli irifit., with intent to commit a, crime therein.—Sergeant O'Neill explained that the accused had been arrested in the act of breaking into the store at. 1 o'clock yesterday morning. The police had not, consequently, had any lime to inquire into the matter, and a remand for a week was required.—Remanded' accordingly. Tho Banwell Charges.—-Mary Banwell, recently committed to prison for three moiiths ion a series of thefts, was further charged i with the theft, on. the 14th February, of four ■ flannel shirts, valued at 16s Bd, the property of i ,7. H. Carter; the theft, on the. 26th Novem-. I her last, of 55 yards of dress material, valued S at £3 15» lOd, the property of J. H. Carter; 1 the theft, on the 26th November last, of 18 | yards of dress material, valued at 13s, the : property of James.Dick and another; the theft, on the Bth inst.. of a teap.ot, a cheese dish, a pair of boots, and a dress piece, of the total value of 23s 6d, the property of A. and T. Inglis ; the (heft, on the 31st December last, of 43 pieces of glass and chinawaro, valued at £3, the property of Lo Keong; and the theft, on the 7tli November last, of three white shirts and other articles, valued at £3 10s, tho properly of George Clark. —MrHanlon appeared for accused, who pleaded guilty to ' all the charge?.—Detective M'Grath explained { that the object of bringing the woman before I the court again was not for the purpose of I having.her further punished, but to facilitate j the return of. the property to the rightful I owners.—His Worship formally convicted and I discharged accused. j Obfcene Language.—Katharine Hunter j pleaded guilty to making use of obscene j language in. St. Andrew street on the 4-th inst.—Sergeant O'Neill said complaints had been made to the police about the woman's I conduct, i She was in the habit of coming to j the door and making use of bad language,----j and whenever a policeman appeared she ran I into the house. She was a married woman.— j Mr Barclay, \vho appeared for the accused. ! said the cause of .'the trouble was a. quarrel j with, a, neighbour. Accused's husband tint j not, unfortunately, look after her, and had 1 himself been convicted the other day for I using a gambling machine,,on the racecourse. ! —Sergeant O'Neill said accused had been con-' j victed and .discharged for a similar offence, I and, later, had been sentenced to 48 hours' | imprisonment.—Mr Graham said the woman i was apparently a source of great annoyance j to the neighbours, and ehe would be sentenced I to seven .days' imprisonment. ! (Before Mr E. H. Carow, S.M.) ! "Drunkenness and Furious Riding.—George I Maeka.y, who liad previously pleaded not j guilty to drunkenness and guilty to furiously ! riding a horse, was again brought up to alj low of evidence being given as to his conj dition.—Constable M'lntyre, watchhouse-kc-epe'r, and Sergeant Higgins gave evidence las to accused' being drunk.—On the^first i charge accused, was fined ss, or 24- hours' imj prisenment: and on the second he was fined.