POLICE COURT.—Saturday.
[Before H. H. Turcon and J. H. Home, Esqs., Justices.] Drunkenness. —G. White, P. Moray, and Alice Hoskins, for first offences were fined each 5s and costs, with the usual alternative. Vaokancy.—Elizabeth Drummond for using obscene language in Chancery-street, was fined 20s and costs or to be imprisoned one month in default. Municipal Act.—Robert Brown, for neglecting to have his name oii his dray, was fined 5a and costs. Laeceny.—Stephen White was charged by Timothy Howard with having stolen property and money, to the value of £10.—Timothy Howard, collector at the Thames, deposed that on the night of the 16th instant he had gone to bed in the Governor Browne Hotel, at the Thames, prisoner being in bed in the same room. Had placed a watch and purse under the mattrass. In the morning, went down stairs, and on returning missed the articles. The two beds were four feet apart. Asked prisoner about them, and then went for a detective.—Detective O'Brien deposed to having found the watch and money produced, not on the prisoner, but in an adjoinI iug room.—Case dismissed.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 347, 18 February 1871, Page 2
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183POLICE COURT.—Saturday. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 347, 18 February 1871, Page 2
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