POLICE COURT.
CHRISTCHURCBT. This Dat. (Before C. Louisson and E. A. Loughnan, Esqs.) Dbunkenness. — A first offender was fined 5s. — C. Beaumelburg was fined 10s. — Patrick Ryan was charged with being drunk and using obscene language in Cambridge terrace. Chief Detective Neil, who arrested the prisoner, said that several ladies were passing at the time, and people were coming out of the V.M.C.A. building. The prisoner said that some larrikins knocked him down, and that he was speaking to them. The Bench inflicted a fine of 20s for the drunkenness, and ordered the prisoner to be locked up until the rising of the Court; for using obacene language. (Before E. Weßtenra and W. H. Lane, Esqs.) Robbing a Till. — George French, 16, who pleaded guilty on Saturday last to this offence, was brought up to receive > sentence. The Bench said that had the prisoner been under fifteen years of age, they would have sent him to Burnham. They thought his parents were responsible for a great deal the prisoner had done. He would be sent to prison' for one month with hard labour.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5994, 1 August 1887, Page 3
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