AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 287, 18 April 1879, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Titesday, April 15. (Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., S.M.) LARCENY. Charles Brown was charged with stealing a saddle, the property of Arthur Setton. It appeared from the evidence that prosecutor and prisoner both reside at Okain's Bay. On the 17th March prosecutor lent the saddle in question to a man named Smith. Smith stated that on returning he had placed the saddle on a fence. When prosecutor went to get it, it had disappared. Prosecutor made enquirie of the neighbors, prisoner included, if they had seen the saddle and received answers in the negative. Subsequently he saw the saddle on prisoner's premises, and as he still denied having it, a search warrant was procured, and the saddle found by Sergeant Willis concealed in a bed in prisoner's house, who was then arrested. Prisoner denied having any felonious

intent. He had found the saddle on his property, and thought it belonged to Smith, who was now in gaol. His reason for not giving it up was that he considered prosecutor was trying to " bounce " him out of it. • Hijr. Worship expressed Ins - surprise at a man' in the position occupied by prisoner committing himself in such a manmanner, 'He could not, however, get over the evidence of felonious intent shown by the concealment prisoner had practised, and prisoner would be sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. The Court'then adjourned.