POLICE COURT.Yesterday.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 4405, 1 September 1882, Page 3

POLICE COURT.Yesterday.

}/ ;;: ; : I DitiNK.—Kau, a native,Tfor drunkennesswas 'fined ss, ;or;; imprisonment until the • rising of the Court. .-.•-. \',A-,,V-'v' :, .\ ; Goose r Eaik—Joseph ' Woolner and Alexander Sampson were charged .with stealing nine' goose eggs from-the premises Qf -Mr ; <:Brownlee, ; jrishtp'wn.-Sergeant O'Grady stated,' thecircurristances'of 'i.the ; case :< The eggs had,been kept in an out* ;house, arid had been three weeks under a goose when taken;by ; 'the 'lads.■ ! Tliey had taken theiri into an 'old drive, and en-: deavoured'to roast them, but finding birds in them, had destroyed them all. He;bei lieved, however/ it was done more out' of mischief than anything eke. They 'had n'ow offered to pay the value of them; and the plaintiff did not- wish to proceed with the charge.—Mr Brbwnlee intimated ■ his desire to withdraw the proceedings for the sake of the lads' parents.—His' Worship said instances of petty-larceny and! pilfering were becoming too comrrpn, and were' looked.' 1 upon', by lads as a very trifling offence, if an offence at all.'; Ithad better be understood that* it ; was a very serious offence, which he" avbs empowered to punish' by-;.\yhippirig-7-an authority he would most assuredly exercise,-if circumstances justified it;' However, as the complainant preferred it, he 'would allow the case to be withdrawn. : : ':. : ;ft-' ' i