POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 2 July 1875, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

[Before His Worship the Mayor, and Dr. Home, J.P.]

A MOTLEY CREW. Jno. Cassell, a lively looking "nigger," Pohipe, a mongrel, C has. Mcllrath, a man with a nose, and Isaac Bryant, alias "Dirty Dick," pleaded guilty to having been drunk last night, and were punished accordingly. TITLES oe dishonour. Mary Howley, who has often been up on the same charge, .pleaded guilty to being drunk, but denied being a rogue and a vagabond. It was proved however by the records of the Court that _d ary was legally entitled to these terms of distinction. Mary : There—that's enough ! When yer begin that, I might as well'plead guilty. Sentence—One year's imprisonment. Mary : What, so soon ! Eliza McGinn, who escaped being sent to prison yesterday by proimsing amendment ot life, was brought up again this morning upon another charge of being found in an incapable condition. . , „ Eliza, who looked penitent and seedy, was remanded till to-morrow. CITY SUMMONSES. Thomas Bowden was charged with leaving his cab unattended in the street. Mr Kissling obtained an adjournment till to'umeTF rancia and -J. Holloway pleaded guilty to a similar charge, and were lined Is and costs. ~ ILLEGALLY "POPPING. Frederick Charles Hinckley, a gentlemanly looking man of about 25, was charged with illegally pawning a silver watch value £0 10s., one property of John Henry bpurr. The prosecutor deposed ho was a.settler residing at Kaihu. In the middle ot May he cave the watch, chain and key (produced) to a barman named Hamou, at the Kaihu Hotel, for him to deliver them to the piiaouer, who was to repair the wa,tch. JL'he prisoner wa3 working" at toe place, and had previously toid the witness he. was a jeweller. Some days afterwards he saw the prisoner, and asked him for the watch. Ho then said it was only just finished, and he wanted to regulate it. He was then wearing the watch. Witness told him he might keep it a few days longer. About a week afcer that he heard that the prisoner had left the place without returning him the watch. He then gave information to the police.

Henry Hyatns, assistant to Mr Neumegen,, in Queen street, deposed that the prisoner pawned tho watch on the 6th of June, in tho namo of Williams. He received £2 upon it. Tho pawn-ticket (produced) boro the number of the watch. Detective Jeffrey gave evidence a3 to meet, ing the prisoner in Queen-street da the 14tfc of June. He asked him what he had don< with Spurns watch. He replied, "A rela tion of mine has got it." Witness askef him what relation. He answered, " Oh, i friend of mine ; I'll get it far you to-day.' He said he meant to have sent it up by tte last steamer. They then went together fo Neumegen's and saw the watch. > Prisoner then admitted having pawned it. The ticket was found upon the prisoner.

This was the case.

The evidence was read over and the pri soner was committed for trial.

LARCENY.

Thomas M. Boulton, William McDonald, and William SulleD, alias Svtton, wencharged with stealing from the dwelling of James Dodd, at Dairy Plat, the sum of £25 4s 6d., about the 28fch ultimo. Mr Broham directed His Worship's attention to the 91_t section of the Act, by which it was possible for the jury to find some of the prisoners guilty of larceny and others of receiving.

James Dodd deposed he was a settler living at Dairy flat. The prisoners were gum-diggers, living in a whare about 150 yards off. Boulton used to assist about his house. On the 27th June last, he had about £26 in a chefFonnier in his house. The money was in a leather bag inside a.jar. The key of the chefFonnier was in the bedroom. The money consisted of one £10 note, two £5 notes, one £1 note, two sovereigns, four half sovereigns, and about £1 in silver and copper. He saw the money safe on Sunday morning, the 27th ult, at 11 o'clock, and missed it at 10 o'clock on Monday morning the 28th. All the regular occupants of the house were out between four and five o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Boulter was left in the kitchen. On Sunday night he complained of being very bad with the toothache, and asked witness to allow him to go into Auckland and have some teeth drawn He replied that he had no objection. Boulton said he would sleep . in the whare that night and go away about three o'clock to catch the first boat at tho North Shore. It wag after he left that witness missed the money. He pursued him into Auckland, where he arrested him and gave him up to the police. Boulton said be had taken the money. When taken to the Wade he pointed out the bag and the jar from which he had taken it. Recollected Boulton being confronted with the other two prisoners. He said the others knew all about it. They borrdwed a candle to look for it in the dark. It was hidden in some long grass, where the three of them had put it. He saw Detective Jeffrey search Sullen, or Sutton, and pull out a roll of notes. Th<_y were the same he had lost. Heard button say to McDofiald that he might as well confess, as he knew all about it as well as hunfelf and Boulton. McDonald denied it. Deteotive Jeffrey, in the course of his evidence, said that Boulton had told him the prisoners had asked bim to steal any money he could find about the house. McDonald all the way through denied having anything to do with the robbery. To McDonald : Yesterday Sutton denied that you knew about it. He did not say so at Dairy Flat. I only allowed you to suppose I was not going to take you into custody because I could not well look after all three, and I thought you wouldn't run away if I led you to believe that. At the conclusion of th« detective's evidence the whole of the evidence was gone through, and the prisoners were severally, committed for trial. This was all the business.

A young woman in Illinois, recently sawed a-cord of wood in 105 minutes, cutting each stick twice. Pretty and not quite eighteen, she performed this feafe because her mother told her she was good for nothing but to read novels.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) J| Sir—l had made up my mind not to notice the very intelligent correspondence that has made its appearance in same of the daily papers over the signature of W. Growther, for the simple reason that Mr William Crowther's interests as a 'bus proprietor* no doubt impel him to thus cry out against the proposed street tramways ; but after reading that extremely intelligent and grammatical piece of composition that appeared in this morning'a Herald, I must say a few more words, and then so far as Mr Crowthsr is concerned lam done. Crowther sneers at the proposition, and with an attempted sickly sneer coupleß a piece of so-called information relative to the' daily carriage of Mr F. Quick's 'busses, and gravely informs the public that "I have been duped. Duped or misinformed I never was. Relative to the practicability and feasability of tramways, I have -made public what I claim to be facts of such importance, and bearing so directly on the question as to arouse a state of feeling in the public mind that cannot be mistaken. Let Mr Crowther deny or prove one of those statements so made to be untrue, and then I will answer him or discuss the questions. Sneers ought not to satisfy an intelligent public ; more especially when they come from such disinterested, quarteirs as Crowther, Quick, and the like. What regard for the dear people's interests the 'bus proprietors have shown lately. ' Be watchful, ye councillors," cries the sage Crowther ; "Go slow and consider well, exclaims the self-sacrificing Quick. Procrastination is the banner watchword of these patriotic jehus ;-and well it might be. Our business is a losing one, cries the pair in joint echoes. If that is so, and tramways are impracticable, why this extraordinary interest on their part ? The fact is, they know the reverse to be true, and their only hope is to sneer the proposition down. Without claiming to be a Vogel, I earnestly trust that I have given this matter such an impetus as that all the sneers and ridicule c.st upon it by Crowther et hoc genus omne •will not avail anything. Crowther talks of haste on my part. I did not want, nor did I auk for anything of the kind. If my application for the Council's consent had been grtnted, four months would havehad to elapse be:'ore any thing could have been done on th 3 subject by which time, for ought we kcow, twenty Richmonds might have been in the field. My object was simply to put the matter in such a shape at once as to eisure only lonafide applicants, and not as csn be now done give the opportunity to tventy individuals to make an application fcr the sole purpose of causing the necessity o: a lot of log rolling to be done in Council as •Hell as to give the opportunity of these applicants to bid a price to be bought off by taose really desiring the franchise. So far slam individually concerned I am out of the fight, I have seen enough to satisfy me that to succeed, too much grease would be Required, I hope there may be those who vill go into it, for pay and succeed it will, mless it be through the obstacles that may je constantly thrown in the promotors road through the influence of yes .ed interests; had I any encouragement on the subject nothing on our part would have been left undone to make it a success, however, it may do good to let Crowther and that ilk get off a little of their bile. They feel sore about it, and well they ' might, for the march and progress of civilization and invention is as certain as time i tself, and as Crowther, Quick and others, displaced the old bullock teams, so must, sooner or later, street railways do away with the present style of very comfortable an<J convenient busses. But on this subject, nous vevrons.-l am, Sir, W. E. Tubnbb.