RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3187, 8 May 1873, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Wednesday, May 7. (Before Wm. Thomson, Esq.. J.P., and John Drysdale, Esq., J.P.)

Embezzlement of Cargo and Stores. — David Leslie and Campbell Baillie, apprentices ; John Fletcher, sailmaker; Adam Watt, George Blues, James Martin, and William Walsh, able seamen ; aud Caleb lAjake, ordinary seaman, were brought up under remand, charged with embezzling a nortion of the cargo and stores of the ship William Davie on her voyage from Glasgow m Port Chalmers.

Mr Mansford, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that, a ter consultation with he captain, he had decided not to offer any .vidence against the two apprentices, David ijeslie and Campbell Baillie, ami asked that hey might be discharged. The Bench, coiuiding in the reasons adduced, ordered the ■wo boys to be released from custody. Mr Mansford then said that, though he vas in a position to produce ample evidence .(justify a conviction in the other cases, et it would be impossible to ascertain the nil extent of the embezzlement till the cargo, or a great portion of it, had been discharged. He would, therefore, offer sufficient evidence to warrant ft farther adjourn-

uent, and then ask for a remand for another peek. Several artie’es were then produced nd identified by the captain as a part of the hip’s cargo, and which bad been round conealed in the forecastle, and the were remanded till next Wedneseay. Assai LT. —The ca e of Sundell against Goveney, the chief officer of the barque \ydney Gr ffiths, was a journed, ou the application of Mr Mansford, for a week