AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 677, 9 January 1883, Page 2

AKAROA RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Friday, January 5.

Before W. B. Tosswill, Esq., J.P.

George Kearney was charged by Patrick O'Reilly with the theft.of a calf, valued at £2. Mr Nalder appeared for the accused. The police asked for a remand for eight days for the production of evidence. Mr Tosswill said he should like to Bay a few words. When he had been asked to sign the warrant on the previous day, he had only done so on the understanding that the accused should not be arrested till that morning, so that he would not have to spend the night in the Jock-up. His reason for this was that from what O'Reilly said himself, it seemed to him that there appeared to be an absence of felonious intent. He was surprised the police had arrested the accused the evening the warrant was issued, contrary to his wi&h. Sergeant Willis said that it was the usual course to arrest a man directly a warrant was issued. Such a course as that suggested by Mr Tosswill was unprecedented. Besides, had he not arrested •Kearney, that evening, he would have had to;be locked up the following night, for it was so far to go to fetch him in that he could not have been there by noon, and so would have had to wait till next day. Mr Tosswill said that need not have been the case, for he would have sat in the afternoon. He would grant the remand asked for by the police. Mr Nalder applied for bail, which was at once granted, accused in £20 and two sureties of £10 each. The Court then rose.