POLICE COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1806, 2 February 1884, Page 2

POLICE COURT, CAMBRIDGE.

Wednesday.— (Before Mr A. Clements, and Captain Corbett, J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. G. Bush, charged with baing drunk on the 29th iiist., was fined 5s and costs, or 24 hours' imprisonment. A HARD CASE. Thos. Mulvaney pleaded guilty to having been drunk on the 29th mst. Pined 5s and costs, or 24 hours. The same prisoner was charged with using threatening language to John Pascoe on the 27th inst. John Pdscoe deposed that he was barman at Mr R. Kirkwoods Duke of Cambridge Hotel. Had seen prisoner for the first time on Saturday, the 26th. Had occasion to eject him from the hotel on the 29th, when prisonor threatened to serve him as O'Donnell had served Carey, and to set fire to the hotel, expressing at the same time his willingness to do 14 years for the piivilege of indulging: his de-'tructive proclivities, meanwhile interlarding his conversation with some of the choicest flowers of rhetoric. Robert Kirk wood deposed to hearing the prisoner m iking use of expressive language, and boasting that he had four D's on his back, and that he had taken fifty lashes. Was not in bodily fear of prisoner or any man, but feaied that prisoner might set fire to his property. 3 . Pascoe, recalled, said he was in bodily fear, as the prisoner had threatened to do for him. J. F. Maguire deposed to hearing prisoner say on Mond ly that he would burn Kirkwoods pl.ice down. Constable Brennan stated that there were 18 previous convictions against the prisoner. Ordered to find two sureties in £50 each, and own bond for £100, to keep the peace for 12 months. The prisoner said he cuild find no such security, and left the dock expiessinga hope that his health might b n spared to do the 12 months, when he anticipated the pleasure of coming this way again. A charge of assault against the same prisonei wa* withdrawn by consent of the banch. ILLEGALLY ON T PREMISES. J. Thomson was fined 5s and costs for being illegally on the premises of Mrs Vowless.