MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 2859, 18 April 1872, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

Tins Day. (Before his Worship the Mayor.) DRUNKENNESS, Tames M'Grath was fined 5s for the above offence. CHARGE OF ROBBERY. William Hoare was charged with stealing the sum of 10s from the bar of the Criterion Hotel, the property of Messrs Barker and Nixon. Mr Shapter defended. W. Boyle, boots at the hotel, said he was in the coffee-room at twenty minutes past six yesterday morning, when ho heard a noise in the bar, and on entering the same saw the prisoner standii g th ire with the handle of the door in his i and. He asked him what ho wanted, and he replied a glass of brandy. Witness observed the money that had been in the till was gone, and not liking his look charged him with stealing it. Prisoner then walked away so quickly that Macgregor, the walking man, would make no show against him, witness pursued him some distance ; but not liking to leave the bar unprotected went back again. Sergt. Keligher said he arrested the prisoner yesterday in Princes street, but found no money on him. Air Shapter, on behalf of prisoner, contended that there was only circumstantial evidence against him, and he submitted that he could not be convicted. His Worship said he agreed with prisoner’s counsel that the evidence was merely circumstantial ; but there had been four previous convictions against the prisoner, and be should strongly advise him to clear out of'Dunedin. He discharged him with a severe caution.

[ln the case of “ Crow v. Hamilton,” for using threatening language, in our police report yesterday, it should have read “Hamilton v. Crow.”]