RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3585, 19 August 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Wednesday, August 19. (Before J. Bathgate, Esq., R.M.) . Drunkenness. —George Anderson was discharged with a caution. Theft. —Frank Thomas was charged with stealing a brooch and earrings, valued at L 4 10s, the property of Catherine Ryder.— Prosecutrix said that accused and two others were in her house, in Clark street, on Sunday morning. As they misbehaved themselves she put them out. They tbeu broke eight windows and the door. She went to look for a policeman, and on returning missed a brooch and pair of earrings, mounted in greenstone and gold, of the value of L 4 10s. They had been in a box ou the table in the bedroom. She was not ab.-ent more than five moments.—His ' Worship : What country are you ?—Witness ; Scotch.—His Worship? What part? The Highlands?— Witness: Witness: Kossshire.—His Worship ; I suppose you know Gaelic better than Scotch —(Laughter.) John Donoghue, laborer, said that he met prisoner in Stafford street yesterday afternoon. Prisoner asked him to pledge the brooch and earrings produced. He said that they were his own, and to get 10s on them. He said they were given to him by his mate sojie time ago. On being told at the pawnshop that they were stolen, he spoke to prisoner, who said that they were his property. yidence was given by John Samuel as to things being offered to him in pawn, and by special Constable Bain as to the arrest of prisoner.—On prisoner’s application the case was adjourned till next day to enable him to call witnesses. Stealing a Watch. —John Harrington, a young man, was charged on the information of Sergt. Bevan with stealing, at Tokomairiro, on the 16th July, one silver huntiuglever watch, of the value of L 9, the propetty of Charles Gray. —Sub-Inspector Mallard asked for a remand to Tokomairiro, prisoner there to appear on Friday. If his Worship desired evidence, he could produce sufficient to connect accused with the stolen property. The watch had been recovered.— Abraham Solomon, pawnbroker, residing in George street, said that prisoner came to bis place last n ght, about a quarter to nine, and wanted to pledge the silver hunting-kver watch, and asked 30s on it. He said that iiis name was J. Howieaon, and that he was a groom, living at the Crown Hotel. He further stated that he had had the watch for eleven months, and that he bought it from a man named Jones at the Uuustao. Witness said he knew the statement to be false, and that the watch had been stolen j whereupon prisoner replied that he had only had it for one month, and that he found it in a hayloft at Tokomairiro. Witness not being satisfied with the explanation, banded him over to the po ice, by whom he was retained. —Prisoner was remanded to Tokomairiro, to appear there on Friday, and to be admitted to bail in the meantime, himself in the sum of LSO, and two sureties of L2O each. Maintenance. Charles Lawson was charged, on warrant, by Benjamin Britton, master of the Industrial School, with disobeying an order of the Dunedin Resident Magistrate’s Court, made on the 10th March, by which he was adjudged to pay the sum of 5s a week for the support of his daughter, an inmate of the above school.— Defendant applied for a remand until next day, which was granted.