SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2212, 9 June 1870, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Tins Day. (Before Mr Justice Chapman.) DETAINING MONEY UNDER PARSE PRETENCES, Muk Knm was indicted for having at Cardrona on the loth April last obta ned a sum of money from one William (Jolclongb, by means of false pretences. Mr John Alloo, government interpreter, interpreted. 'The prosecutor is a storekeeper and gold buyer at Cardroua. On the afternoon of the 10th April, prisoner went to his store, and asked him “ to changes gold/’ The stuff he produced was weighed and found to weigh- 4ozs 7dv, ts I‘igrs, for which prosecutor gave him 140 Ss, believing it to b; pure gold. Shortly after prisoner leaving the store, prosecutor discovered -That it was spurious gold. He went after the prisoner, and finding him at the store of another Chinaman, asked him to refund the money, but he denied having sold any gold to him. Last week the stuff was analysed by Mr Paine, asaayer of the Bank of New South Wales, and it was found to contain 4pzs (idwts iOgrs of lead, and Idwt 2ozs of gold, the value of the lead being 4d, and the gold 4s. On being arrested by Mr Alloo, prisoner admitted having made a little gold before. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. James Sam Queen, alias Ah Lee, alias

Flash Jamie, was indicted for having at Cardroua, obtained money under false pretences, On the 19th March, prisoner went to a hotel at Cardroua, kept by a widow named Box, and succeeded in getting L 6 os by representing himself as the Government interpreter with a salary of L 250 a year, that he wa; the owner of a pnblichousc (not quite finished} and store at Cardroua, that be had Ll.fiUO in the bank but he could not get any money until he went to the. reefs, where lie had four Europeans working for him. The prosecutor lent him jjthc money to enable him to purchase a billiard table, he stating he was short of that amount. Instead of the prisoner having money, he never pressed any since he came here, and had already received a sentence for vagrancy. He was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. forgery. William Gray was charged with forgery and uttering at Palmerston. Mr Barton defended, and in the course of his remarks “ pitched into ” some of the jury for being dull and sleepy, refusing to proceed unless they woke up ami attended to him. The cases of Reg. v. Creagh and Cardwell will be taken to-morrow.