POLICE COURT.- Thursday.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 452, 22 June 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.- Thursday.

[Be"o"e Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.] Drunkenness.—Two persoHis were fined in the usual amount .for; th|s oTfehcJß'' -«., ( \ ~ ; t \ 'Rreach* oe Vagrancx Act.—Robert* Condrbn, ;on this charge, was fined 405., or to be imprisoned 14 days. Assaulting the Police.—Rohert Condron, for assaulting Sergt. Walker, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.

Laeceny.—W. Wilson and H. Tavis were charged with having stolen a coat and other articles from Allaway'shoardingrhouse at the Thames, and the cu'Camstauces being proyed, the prisoners were sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. Uttering- l?o'R<%Ep .; Scßip.rTrl^avid George Smaile was charged by Joseph Westmoreland with ' having uttered' ; six' forged transfers of B"crip of the Alburaia Gold Mining Coiapany^«-7nMPitijJ&'lJ.f ißuisell watched |he case for the prosecution; Mr. Broham popducted the examination. —Joseph WestSnprejand deposed; I reside at Newton. 'On' jthe ,sth;,, ii^Bfcanfc. ,1 /, went^ , ,tp,,, prisoner's house;' at -Bembera, to *■ aifc ihifti ii id purchase six scrip in the Albtirnia Gold Mining Company for a Mr. Paton. Not succaedmg, we came into town, and the prisoner went into Messrs. Smith and'Offer?i,*and there purchased three Albuvnia scrip for £15. I took the.transfer next dy,y. I a^ain met the prisoner in Q.ueen-^treety and- requested that as wiy^ fcliebtir'efaped Jijdjinko. the .three he--should take them back. ITo paid, I will give you pix scrip of Mr/ Pct-m's at £13 ss. I took themy, giving him'-£34 • push., and the transfer for the other th,ree gcsm. jfbe transfer produced'purports to be signed "by Thoikas Paton/' of Epsom, aad. witnessed, by J. 0. Firth.' I expressed itby surprise^ai; %fr. Paton selling th6m. Sometime altej\;from po'dVersation I hacliwitliMr. Ifyfflfflffist fflffiWF6rißhB i prispner, who said the transfer had been left at his house by Mr. Wells. I took him to Mr. PaitdniTTo^risoner: Itwasnotuiiuerstood thatwe -w'er^ ? to' g6 iinto iparti;ei'ship/' :t6)ti tb^Gii' it&st? after I had purchased what J thought was Mr; Paton's scrip, I,did agree "to go into partnership with prispner. I took the scrip conditional on my client agreeing^'iSo' thfe jDumber and price.; Prisoner said it wa9 the of Mr; Tivtl^ as he knew. It was not at the request pf prisoner that I went to • the office of the company to see if MrV Pat'oii's scrip was registered. At the Jftme the scrip" was offered for.,eale^W^s' name was not-meniti6Dfedi iViso'ttm |flft^eato niafce good- theloßs giYlng'me*i'ca9h*alid4wo chdquesonone of which'payment was stopped. —Josiah 0. Firth, of the firm of Thornton, Smjth, and Firth, deposed; The signatnve to the transfer produced is* kißt mine, nor do I know anything of the document.—To the prisoner. .It is not at all like my signature.— Tlipmas^Patpn, settler, residing at Epsom, corrob|oratir<| plaintiff'sfefiflenS as|to the/inifeiview wiiii jnihonevk i^Eed ao'V sell Albariiiaß, thd signature to the transfer produced ii».|iot mine. It resembles it very little. I did not transfer six Alburnias. On my charging the prisoner with having, forged my name, he said the forgery had been done by a man named Slattcry, whom he had given in charge a^ the Thames.- tie stated' that he' had 'Slaitery til-' ready arrested.-r-Oross-examined by prisoner: —Thomas Wells, storekeeper'at Tararu, deposed :Oh Monday; the- sth of Jun<»-, Iwwars r in, Audklarid'j(and Mt'for1 tlie Thames that after-? 'nopn. Never before saw the. transfer produced. • I have had no transactions in mining 4i matters with .prisoner for fire or six moaths.! I rciceited the. tielegram--produced, isigneii'-by'j on June 6th.—To prisoner : I never had transactions witt a man named" Sliittery. —pDetective Jeffi-ey deposed to having arrested prisoner at his own offloeV ■■* Tii'* the office, he subraittied'the document produced, which is in prisoner's handwriting, and purpdrts to describfi. Jipw the -transfer came into his hands, and to giro "a description of Slkttery.—Detective MurpTiy, from Q-rahams-tojwn, deposed that for a week past he had fcbeen making _ enquiry for a man named Leopold* Slattqry^pl thje- jiMea^atairiv'"><siHild months at Gralia'mstown. . NQver- .heard any.thing of such a. person as. Slattery. I[e has , ;wever ( b^nlisii}ie (J^^ u p[,a€, ©-r^anielfojy&a. "This concluded the case for the prosecution!. —JThe Court adjourned from one o'clock for > half-an-hour.r :0n resuming,: the inT#Btigation of. four similar charges wa3 proceeded with, ai|d the Couv,t was st(U sitting aa we went to press. ■ • ■ ;'i ■?'*' •■» A'V'i A ■ %

;:. ■ A JEBSEY 3H pOBY. r T&ilastfish etory.,c> f ;from-New Jersey*■- ' Lately, in theinterioi #at< State, a mUck T '■ looking country-man tered a railway car, *;i; bearing a bundle tit p in" a handkerchief If which he placed und(le seat at the end 0f ..., - the car. After trave; along for about half an houg a/lady sittin front of the country. ' man wai observed t ipTe,~auieasily in her Beat, aiid to caiscßftfijanceß ata seemingly. " ' I respectable man sittin r her side. In a few ' ;ainu^s afterwprifiiu er kdy, still further' to the front, fbeoanjiieasy," and at last, risitl'g in her seati re< ted some gentleman ' in,|he car\wouldpWt lifer from an elderly locking gentleman by' side, and whom she stated had irilt||tedbe] - dozen persons offered their assistance, and Ire the accused could speak in his own defe his hat was jammed over his eyes and be' dragged 40-the~rew of the car. "While thand carrying o^fwttr1' 13**^ the avengers a war, oi rds as to >what the t> indignity means, still >ther lady .'rose,, also) f '"'■ seated further up the and accused a gentleman 'sitting tehind h< ith impropei.conducT<l '"*lit*J *w«« A rush was made for insulter number two, . | but lhat gentleman vi ously defended him- *. self with;a large walk: Bticli,ho happened to have (and which, by-i bye, was one cause of the last i troubles, hiseuser stated that he had indecorously be rapping hftrTancles)^ und«r the seat with tl ame,) and, while the struggle to get at, hit vas, still to progresw, n i ty somebody in front df carshoutefd.^TheafrV" a snake on the floor." l scene then emued. j" The ladies in the cailarabered up oh the seats, and many got ohe arms and backs,",p^-» the same. One eldei maiden managed to stand on the backs of ro seats* in the""beßfe~iW*r««| circus manner possible der the circumstauces, while a young mother rew her babe'-'itita^W parcel rack, and <fchen' Qg convnlsively to' M ventilator. ■ The confu n awoke the counlfy"' man, who, on being t. of the snake, flWfci" ■felt in tha bundle/ aric hen exclaimed, "-Taii blessed if that old eel lint got Ioobb" started ' for th!e front,/,and >n. returned grasping firmly jan immense c which he had jdst caught while fishing, lj; which, when brought into the car, had inancd to get out .ofl tke bundle, and had wend its way to the front, lovingly carressing th different Tai'ieties of ladies', garters, whiqh , encountered 6$ IneT" ,- v way. Apoidgiesn#eU"«l'r«c^>r^eiJst^tgli^e^t',;., i: everything'ili that c,aiufc'-'the"tift*tlltt''%aii™ '*' jammed down, and t] countryman leavinjrtt the ne^tf station lib bod wa¥" <LT&fffl~Ndw ■York Times. " » ,». j :!