POLICE COURT.—Friday.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 221, 23 September 1870, Page 2

POLICE COURT.— Friday.

(Before J. S. Macfarlane and T. Macffarlane, Esqs., Justices.)

Drunkenness. — Miles Sweeney and T. Hubbard were each fine 5s and costs, or to be imprisoned 24 hours with hard labour. Embezzlement. -Thomas Lascelles Harris was charged with having, on or about the Bth August, 1870, embezzled the sum of £650, the property of the Shire Council of Bulla, in the colony "of Victoria.—Mr. Inspector Broham applied for a remand to Victoria, and tendered evidence of the identity and capture of the prisoner.—Detective James Murphy deposed : I know the prisoner to bo the person described in the Victoria Police Gazette produced, No. 32, August 9, 1870. I arrested him on a warrant" yesterday, charging him with embezzling £650, the property of the Bulla Council, in Vicloria. I arrested him near the island of Tiri tiri, as he was going on board the barque Santon, bound for New York. I told him the charge. When I mentioned his name, he said, "Rightyou are." He said he had drawn the £650 from the Treasury, and placed it in the bank to his own account, and that it was in his official capacity as engineer and treasurer to the Shire Council that he had got the money in gold from the bank when he was prepared to leave Melbourne. He admitted all the facts connected with the case. I found £174 on him in gold ; he said he had spent the greater part of it. —The prisoner was remanded to Victoria, to be forwarded by the next steamer.

The Conrt then rose.