POLICE COURT.—FRIDAY.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 268, 18 November 1870, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—FRIDAY.

(Before J. O'Neill and D. B. Thornton,

Esqs., Jnstices.) Dbttnkenness —W. Swanson for a second offence was fined 10s and costs/or to be imprisoned 4S hours. Municipal Polio* Act.—Z. Sandall, for allowing'two horses to wander, was fined 5a and costs. i abc bny.—Mary Ann Curtis »?as -charged «itlf having stolen two one-pound notes, the property of Ann Foster, . Eemauded, till tomorrow. Carl Williams, on remand, was charged with having stolen, on the 15th November, one coat, value 13s, the property of Mr. Asher. -A. Asher deposed, On la*t Tuesday, I hung ■ip a coat in the shop. I saw it n little after 8, and missed it at aqiarter t■ 9. The coat traduced is the one taken. Do not know the prisoner. - Catherine Burke deposed, I keep a <hon in Cliancery-street. On tho morning of the 15th, prisoner came to my shop an-1, sold me the coat produced for4a. —Detective Muri!iy deposed, about half-past nine on Tuesday, r heard of the robbery, and got from Mrs. Burke a description <>f the coat. ! arrested 'ie prisoner <-«n his bei g i 'entifled by Mrs. Burke, as having sold her the coat. He •ulted out of ihe house n d ran for about a .nil?, and 1 had great difficulty in securing lim.—Prisoner stinted thai he had the <-o<it for five months, and Unit it wns his own. — ' Piisoner wis al-o charge-1 with timing, on ho loth inst., stolen irom J. MacLaohlun, a mir of trousers and two shirt-", value 2 15». — Veill VlcLeod deposed: —' im employed by J Mr-Laehlan, draper, Quepn-street. Onthe norniiig in question, 1 placed the anieles umging in the slvp. On my attention bring lirectt'd during ihe day, I missed the articles | The articles produced we: o those tascn. i'liey are valued at 555. — Detective Murphy, deposed : I arrested priaone>' n a shop in Chancery-street on Tuesday, .vhen selling the articles produce!. — sergeant Jeffery corroborated the previous evidence. —Prisoner stated when arres'ed that ie had bought the ail idea some days before, n Queen-street. —The same prisoner and riichard O'Doghcrty were charged with having itolcn, on November 12, a coat, the property if T. McMaster. The charge against U' I Jogb■ity was withdrawn. —John Paul, deposed : I in, assistant to T. M<:.Vla.-»ler, draper, Queeuatreet. On Saturday hi at a coat, trousers, and est were stolen from the shop. 1 noticed hem at twelve noon, and missed then at lail-past two. The value of the coit is £4.— i O'Dogherty, deno*--d :I am a bootmaker. Prisoner w»s lodging with me. 1 saw rlie coat ■roduued, with pi'U nv.-r, on Saturday. S*w urn in the wnt-h hou-e, and he toll me to >awn this coat, which I i<iJ for eight t-hillinirs. —B. Levi, deponed: I am employed by Air. Veumegen pavvtib ■■oltec This coat wofl punned with inn by lust witness. I gave it 4p to Detective M rphy. — Ucrecuve Mirphy, deposed: On showing the coat, to prisoner, in presence of O'Dogherty, ho said, " That's my coat; I gave it to O'Dogherty to pawn for me, "— Prisoner was iurtlier charged by J3. Cuss with having, on the 12th jNovember, stolen one p«ir of trousers, value 18s.—Robfc Kenoul, assistant to B. Cass, deposed to the fc.-oiisera having been stolen from the shop, and that they were in all respects similar to thos produced.— R. O'Dogherty deposed that he saw the trousers produced? on prisoner, on Saturday. They were then new.—B. Levi. deposed: The trousers produced were left with me by O Dogher yV daughter, but noi pledged. 1 gave them'up to Detoctive Murphr«—Detective Murphy deposed to prisoner liaviag told him thab he had bought the trousers. —Caroline O'Dogherty deposed to having tried to pawn the trousers for prisoner. —This last case wad dismissed. On the first three charges the prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labjr for two months, for each offence, being an aggregate1 ol six months.