Line 0.0.0 NORTH MELBOURNE

Line 0.0.1 POLICE COURT.

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Line 0.0.3 MONDAY, July 4.

Line 0.0.4 Before Dr. Lloyd (chairman). Messrs.

Line 0.0.5 Wadick (mayor), Barwise, Wylie, and

Line 0.0.6 Barker, Js.P.

Line 0.0.7 OBSCENE LANGUAGE.

Line 0.0.8 Elizabeth Wylie was charged as

Line 0.0.9 above.

Line 0.0.10 Constable Humphries said that on

Line 0.0.11 Saturday night the prisoner used very

Line 0.0.12 bad language in Elizabeth-street.

Line 0.0.13 She was taken ill in the lock-up, and

Line 0.0.14 a doctor had to be sent for. She was

Line 0.0.15 fined 5/- with 26/- costs or seven days.

Line 0.0.16 LARCENY.

Line 0.0.17 Annie Grovin was charged with

Line 0.0.18 stealing a pair of gloves valued at 5/-,

Line 0.0.19 the property of W. Dow.

Line 0.0.20 Willian Dow said he was a blacksmith

Line 0.0.21 living at Kensington. On the 3rd,

Line 0.0.22 early in the mtorning, he met the prisoner

Line 0.0.23 in North Melbourne, and she made im-

Line 0.0.24 proper suggestions. While he was

Line 0.0.25 talking to her she took a pair of gloves

Line 0.0.26 from him and declined to return them.

Line 0.0.27 The prisoner was drunk at the time.

Line 0.0.28 He gave her in charge to Constable,,

Line 0.0.29 Humphries, who said the prisoner was

Line 0.0.30 stupid with liquor.

Line 0.0.31 Dr. Lloyd (to Dow): You're a queer

Line 0.0.32 fellow to let a drunken woman rob you.

Line 0.0.33 It's a piece of crass, stupidity from be-

Line 0.0.34 ginning to end.

Line 0.0.35 The prisoner was fined 5/- or 24 hours.

Line 0.0.36 LARCENY.

Line 0.0.37 Bessie Thows was charged as above.

Line 0.0.38 She was remanded for a week on the

Line 0.0.39 application of the sergeant.

Line 0.0.40 INSULTING BEHAVIOR AND ASSAULT.

Line 0.0.41 Valentine Keating was charged with

Line 0.0.42 the above offences.

Line 0.0.43 Constable McGlynn said that on the

Line 0.0.44 24th he was on duty in Queensberry-

Line 0.0.45 street when Mr. Sands, who keeps a

Line 0.0.46 restaurant, desired witness to eject Keat-

Line 0.0.47 ing and another. He did so, and told

Line 0.0.48 them to go away, but Keating went back

Line 0.0.49 again repeatedly, and would not leave.

Line 0.0.50 The prisoner then defied the constable,

Line 0.0.51 and raised his crutch to strike him. Mc-

Line 0.0.52 Glynn grappled with him, and Constable

Line 0.0.53 Flood came on the scene. Keating was

Line 0.0.54 handcuffed and taken to the lock-up in

Line 0.0.55 a waggon.

Line 0.0.56 William Sands, restaurant keeper,

Line 0.0.57 said that on the 24th Keating came in

Line 0.0.58 with "another gentleman" for his tea.

Line 0.0.59 Dr. Lloyd: You are very polite.

Line 0.0.60 (Laughter.)

Line 0.0.61 Witness, continuing, said the prisoner

Line 0.0.62 misbehaved and he had to call in

Line 0.0.63 McGlynn.

Line 0.0.64 Constable Flood said that he came to

Line 0.0.65 McGlynn's assistance on the 24th.

Line 0.0.66 Keating was very violent, and half mad

Line 0.0.67 apparently. He "doubled down" and

Line 0.0.68 threw witness on the ground and hurt

Line 0.0.69 his hand. Keating hit McGlynn on the

Line 0.0.70 head.

Line 0.0.71 Mr. Daly made an ad misrecordiam

Line 0.0.72 appeal to the bench on Keating's behalf,

Line 0.0.73 and said prisoner had received a sound

Line 0.0.74 thrashing from the police, and had been

Line 0.0.75 seven days in the gaol hospital.

Line 0.0.76 He was fined 2/6 in each case, or 24

Line 0.0.77 hours, the bench saying they took the

Line 0.0.78 fact that he had been in gaol into con-

Line 0.0.79 sideration.

Line 0.0.80 LARCENCY.

Line 0.0.81 Arthur Gordon was charged with

Line 0.0.82 stealing a pair of child's boots, value 3/6,

Line 0.0.83 the property of E. Tootell.

Line 0.0.84 He has been on remand in gaol for a

Line 0.0.85 week, and was now discharged.

Line 0.0.86 AN OLD OFFENDER.

Line 0.0.87 M*argaret Whitty was charged with

Line 0.0.88 being drunk and breaking a pane of glass

Line 0.0.89 value 2/6.

Line 0.0.90 Constable McGlynn said that when

Line 0.0.91 arrested for being drunk the prisoner

Line 0.0.92 smashed a pane in the window of the

Line 0.0.93 lock-up office. She had to be taken to

Line 0.0.94 the gaol in a straight jacket.

Line 0.0.95 The sergeant said the prisoner was a

Line 0.0.96 great nuisance, and had been repeatedly

Line 0.0.97 before the court.

Line 0.0.98 For being drunk she was fined 10/-

Line 0.0.99 or seven days, and for breaking the win-

Line 0.0.100 dow, 5/- with 2/6 damages or seven days.

Line 0.0.101 INSULTING BEHAVIOR.

Line 0.0.102 Thomas Dowdle and James Hantley

Line 0.0.103 were charged as above.

Line 0.0.104 Constable Loorham said that on Sun-

Line 0.0.105 day evening the prisoners were singing

Line 0.0.106 "Could I only back a winner" near the

Line 0.0.107 Wesleyan Church, and were jostling

Line 0.0.108 ladies off the footpath. When the

Line 0.0.109 constable remonstrated with them they

Line 0.0.110 hooted him.

Line 0.0.111 They were each fined 5/- or 24 hours.

Line 0.0.112 VAGRANCY.

Line 0.0.113 Elizabeth Kennedy was charged with

Line 0.0.114 the above offence.

Line 0.0.115 Constable Humphries said he arrested

Line 0.0.116 the prisoner on Saturday. She was

Line 0.0.117 always hanging about the streets at

Line 0.0.118 night behaving in a disorderly manner,

Line 0.0.119 She was discharged with a caution.

Line 0.0.120 HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Line 0.0.121 Anna Dumelow v. Josiah Dumelow.

Line 0.0.122 An order was made in March, 1896, for

Line 0.0.123 15/- a week against defendant. Now

Line 0.0.124 he declined to pay more than 7/- a week,

Line 0.0.125 and the bench were asked to deal with

Line 0.0.126 him.

Line 0.0.127 Mr. Gaunson, who appeared for the

Line 0.0.128 wife, said he was instructed defendant

Line 0.0.129 was well able to pay the 15/-.

Line 0.0.130 The bench said they did not think

Line 0.0.131 defendant's circumstances, after hearing

Line 0.0.132 his evidence, were too good, and com-