CENTRAL POLICE COURT.—WEDNESDAY. - (Before Messrs. Day and Hughes.) - Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) - 2 Jun 1870 (original) (raw)

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Thu 2 Jun 1870 - Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875)
Page 3 - CENTRAL POLICE COURT.—WEDNESDAY.

CENTRAL POLICE COURT.-WEDNESDAY.

(Before Messrs. Day and Hughes.)

Several' drunkards were punished.

Mary M'Laughlin, an idlo and disorderly character

was sont to gaol for three months.

William Lancaster, apprehended by detective

Powell, was chirgcd -with having fraudulentlv

uttered a forged cheque for £7. Defectivo Powell

stated that ho apprehended the prisoner or

Tuesday night. When charged with tho offence,

he stated that ho had received the

choquo from a man named Day, who lived ul

Windsor, and who paid him the cheque on the Insl

day of Randwick races. Bernard M'Laughlin,

publican, residing on South Head-road, stated thal

on tho 14th May last tho priáonor asked him tc

chango the cheque, and he did so. Prisonor was

remandod for a week. Bail refused. Mr,

Thompson appeared for the defence. Tho same

person was charged with having fraudulently

uttered a oheque for £10 on Wm. Barry, bootmaker,

of George-street. Prisoner was remanded for n

Sarah M'Gue, charged with child-desertion, was

remanded until Wednesday next. Bail allowed

self in £30, and two sureties in £10 each.

Leopold Rawack, charged with having obtained

goods under false pretences, was, on the application

of his attorney, Mr. Roberts, remanded until Friday

next. Mr. Carroll appeared to prosecute.

. Henry; Rogerson was charged by his wifo with

nogleoting to maintain his wifo and children.

Mr. Roberts appeared to prosecute ; Mr,

Forstor to dofond. It appeared that thc

defendant had lately ..been ' committed to

take his trial at the central criminul court on a

charge of bigamy. He is now on bail, and MB wife,

Johanna Rogerson, sought to obtain maintenance

from him. He ia . employed at the now post office

building. The complainant atatcd that she was

married to the defendant on tho 9th October, 1859,

in Melbourne. Sho resided with him at Newtown,

in Victoria, ap to two years ago, when he desorted

her. She bore four children to him. Sho has

received soma support from defendant, but not

enough, and when sho came to Sydney and went

to. him at the post office, ho refused

to acknowledge her, or to provide a

homo. She had received £1 occasionally.

-once every six br eight weeks. WitnoBs was

married at the Wesleyan Church in Lonsdalo-strcct,

hy tho Rev. J. H. Waugh. Tho certificato now

produced, was signed by the clergyman and. two

witnesses'. Witness saw these persons sign the

certificate. She believed that defendant was corning

10s. or 12s. a day at his work at tho poBt office. She

believed also that ho earned money hs a musican.

£2 por week would be enough for tho support of

hersoiï and four children. . Witness received £1 last

Saturday-the first money for five weeks. When

witness* went to defendant at tho post office, he

wanted her to return to Melbourne. Sho

had hoard that he was married again, or was living

with some person and accused him ; hut he denied this.

-Sergeant Bloomfield dopoBod to having arrested

defendant on a ohargo of bigamy, when ho (defend-

ant) confessed to having written loiters produced,

nnd that they wero writton to his wifo Johanna

Rogerson. Ho also acknowledged that his name in

the marriage certificate was writton by him.-Tho

def/ondunt being sworn, stated that ho waa a stone-

mason, omployed at tho new general

post oflico, und earned 10s por day; hut

tor tho last two months thc weathor had hoon so wot

that full time was not obtained, the musons only

being paid for tho time they worked. Tho year

through, witness's incomo did not uvorago £2 ñs por

weok. Witness had mudo very little us a musician ;

he had averaged about £1 a quarter by this means.

Ho had not received any money ns a member of tho

yohmteor hand. It cost him 30s per week to live,

inclusivo ot clothing. He had no ready money. Tho

hench ordered tho payment of £1 weekly for twelve

(Uoforo Messrs. Bray, Chapman and Macintosh.)

__John Henry Earl, a bailiff, charged Thomas

Keenan with assaulting him in tho oxeculion of his

duty. Defendant was fined -10s and 5s Od costs.

Georgo Pucker, charged with having assaulted

j William Thomas Muston, was fined ls and 19s 'id

Sarah Moon sued James Moon, her husband, for

maintenance, lind tho bench ordered defendant^ to

pay 10B per wook for twulvo months.