MAYOR'S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2302, 22 September 1870, Page 2

MAYOR'S COURT.

Tins Day, (Before life Worship the Mayor, aud Henry Driver, Esq., J.P.) TUKFT. Peter Jolinson, Edward M’Cartucy, James Hamilton, John Flanuagan, alias Mulvany, alias Mahoney, alias Parker (on remand), were charged with stealing a quantity of tobacco, valued at L 5, the property of Messrs Hogg and Hutton, Princes street. The following additional evidence was offered by the police ; —The prosecutors deposed that the tobacco found on the prisoners formed part of a sample they had in stock. It was a particular kind of tobacco, and the only portion they had sold retail was a quantity sold ten days ago to a storekeeper

at West Taieri, The prisoners applied to be allowed to call as witnesses the persons from whom they alleged they had purchased the tobacco. Accordingly the case was adjourned until 3 o’clock, when they called the shopman in Mr Blyth’s establishment, Princes street, and assistants in two other stores, who denied all knowledge of them, and stated positively that the tobacco produced was totally unlike what was sold in their respective establishments. Evidence of former convictions of three of the prisoners was then given M'Cartney _in April last received six months imprisonment for housebreaking at Pine Hill,’ received three months for vagrancy recently, and in 1863, got five years penal servitude, fer highway robbery with violence in Southland ; and Hamilton had received a sentence for larceny at the same time as Mulvaney. The Bench considered the case fully proved, and sentenced M'Cartuey, Mulvaney, and Hamilton, each to six months imprisonment, and Johnson, against whom nothing was known previous, to throe months imprisonment.