RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3157, 2 April 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

This Day.

(Before Dr O’Donoghue, J.P., and Daniel

Rolfe, Esq,, J.P.j

Til eft.-- Peter Fothoriugham was charged with stealing from Deoch’s Jerusalem Colfee Rooms a cash-box, containing a half-sove-reign, some silver, some stamps, and sundry documents. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and requested that he might have the case adjourned, so that he might get the services of a lawyer. The justices thought it desirable to go on with the case, to see if there were sufficient grounds to justify an adjournment. Mr Henry Dench, proprietor of the Jerusalem Colfee Rooms, said he saw the prisoner in his house last night, and during his temporary absence from the bar, he heard a rustling noise in it, but took no notice of it. Shortly afterwards he had occasion to go to his cash box, when he found it was gone. He immediately gave information to the police. The prisoner had been in the habit of frequenting his house for the past four days, and he had kept his eye on him, not liking his appearance. The box was found beliind one of the doors in his house about eight o’clock this morning There was no money in it. Sergeant Neill apprehended the prisoner in George street, Port Chalmers, last night coming out of the George Hotel, He found on him two postage stamps, a five-shilling piece, a half-crown and nine one-shilling pieces. Sergeant Neill further stated that the prisoner had been brought before the Mayor’s Court, in Dunedin, some four or live mouths ago, for stealing a ivatch in George Street, Dunedin, and had been under the surveillance of the police ever since, and that he did not bear a very good character in the other Provinces. At the prisoner’s request the case was then remanded till Saturday.