AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
Friday, Jan. 21, 1881. Before Justin Aylmer, Esq., EM. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. Etienne Brochcr was charged with making use of abusive language to Mrs Cashmere. It appeared to be a case of " six of one and half-a-dozen of the other," and the Bench dismissed the case. CIVIL CASES. Rodrigues v. O'Re'lly.—This was an application for a re-hearing of a case which had been decided in defendant's favor. In answer to tli3 Bench, Mr Kodrigues stated that he had now evidence to adduce to show that defendant had received due notice of dishonor of the bill which formed the original subject of the action. lie-hearing granted, to take place on Tuesday, 25th inst. Monday. Jan. 24, 1881. BuFortE Justin Aylmer, Esq., R.M. lahceny. W. 11. Rossiter was charged with the larceny of a shilling. According to tho evidence adduced, it appeared thatW. Wenlock and the accused were occupying neighboring bed-rooms at the Criterion Hotel, Akaroa. On Thursday evening last Wenlock borrowed 10s of the barman, Duncan McGregor. Of this sum he spent la Gd, but in the morning he discovered that he had nothing left. In order to discover tho depredator, he got the barman to mark some coins for him. On the Saturday morning ho had two notes, and some silver, including tho marked coins, alongside his bed. On that morning Ilobert Main came into hi* bedroom, and he (prosecutor) gave him a shilling to procure some liquors. On Main's returning, the silver was missing. Later in the same day, prisoner paid one of the marked coins over the bar, and it was identified by the barman.
Prisoner accounted for the possession of the marked coin by stating that ho had picked it up in prosecutor's bedroom, and the latter had told him to " take it and spend it." He elicited the fact that prosecutor had lent him money, and also endeavored to make it appear that the barman might have given him the marked
coin in change
The Bench considered that there was a doubt in the case, and v/onld giro prisoner the benefit of it. The case would be
dismissed
The Court then adjourned
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 January 1881, Page 2
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359AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 January 1881, Page 2
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