MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2638, 1 August 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Da; t . (Before Ilia Worship the Mayor and J, Brown, Esq., J.F.) DRUNKENNESS. William Glory and Henry Millar were each fined 3a. Margaret Stewart, an old offender, was lined 20s, with the alternative of three days imprisonment. , ALLEGED LARCENY. Charles Taylor, was charged with stealing a number of beer barrels, valued at LKS, the property of Marshall and Copeland, Mr Mr M'Keay defended. The only witness examined was Mr James Marshall, one of prosecutors, who stated that he believeed the barrels he had seen in the police yard belonged to his firm ; he identified them by their general appearance. On a second examination, he identified eight of them, seven of the number being of their own manufacture, Jand the eighth by the numbei upon it. Having casually gone into Messrs Cargill and Lansegne’s yard on Thursday last he noticed the barrels there, and at once identified them as bis pro perty. On the forenoon of the 2Gth, ha met the accused on the wharf, and asked him if he had sold any barrels lately, and t.e replied that he had, and to Mr Hyman of the Pier Hqtel for 10s each. He also stated that he had bought tlieiq fpom waggoners coming down country with wool, that he had paid from 9s to 14s each, and that he had been in the cask business about eighteen mouths. The cost price of these casks was LI a-piece. Witness’s firm had been losing casks for the past two years. He could not say whether these particular barrels were lost. They la ’b witness’s establishment to go coastwise ; but ho could not say to what place they were sent. By Mr M'Keay : The casks were sold conditionally. He was not prepared to swear

that they wore stolen from any person: they might have been lost. Witness could not trace them to the exact person who returned them to him. At this stage of the proceedings, the Commissioner of Police asked leave to withdraw the case, which was granted, Mr M'K'iay objecting, and asking for a dismissal.