RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3652, 5 November 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Thursday, November 5. (Before!'. A. Mans ford, E»q., K.M.) Drunkenness —Ma y Connell was charged wiui this offence.—His Worship asked it the police knew a ythiug about the accused.— sub-iu p etor hlauard : *he is going to the oad ; site is one of the ** Asiatic ’ girls. iceused : Ao, the Caroline. Mabard : she has b en cautioned l y tre police on one or two occasions as to her ionduofc. Bhe was lined iOs, with the alternative of twenty-four hours! imprisonment. Donald M Lean was mulcted iu a similar penalty. Ship Desertion. -Peter Cain, charged wioh deserting from the whaling ship Sarah Pile, on October 28, was disenarged. Ihbft —John Tiiton was charged on the infoim tion of John M‘Carthy with stealing, on November 1. from the . emperauce Hall, Ma-iaggan street, one leather pocket-book containing three one-pound notes a .d three ships’ discharges, aud also one pocket-hand-kerchief. —Prosecutor said that he was in the i emperauce Hall on .‘nmday night. A man whom he did not know slept in ths same ruoin as him. He had a pocket book in his coat, which he hung upon a nail in the room. I he man who slept iu t .e room got up before him next morning. When witness got up he missed the baudkerchuf, and the pocket-book aud its contents. He identified the handkerchief produced as his property —Thom s Burgess, proprietor of the Temparauce Hall, said that he saw the accused in his establishment; on Sunday night. He slept in the same room as last witness. He had been clean shaved since. onsteble Henderson, who arrested accused, deposed bhat the latter told him ho lived in Pore Uhalmers and had only come to town yesterday. He further said that he stopped at Port Chalmers on Sunday night, and denied ever having been in the Temperance Hall. Witness said that he must have him identified, and on taking him to the hall he admitted having slept there ou the night in question. He was then id utilled by Mrs Burgess. On searching him witness ouad the handkerchief produced. His Worship had no doubt about accused’s guilt, and sentenced him to six months’ imprisonment with hard labor. Turnpike rdinance —Wm. Murray was charged ou the information of Alfred Hassal eabmaa, with having on October 21 at the Water of Leith Toll-bar commanded and taken from him the sum of sixpence, whereas he was returning the horse from a place not two miles distint and thus was exempted from payment.—Mr Atewarb defended.— Prosecutor claimed exemption on the ground that the horse had been taken from a paddock within two miles of the toll bar. The horse being a cab horse and thus not liable to be exempted, the case was dismissed with coats.

Theft.— Martha O’Brien (8), and Mary Doing (7), were each committed to the Industrial School for the term of five years for stealing one silver watch and chain, the value of L 3, from the premises of John Asher, Octagon. O’ . Jrien was an immigrant by the Caroline, and Doin', who was also an immigrant, but longer m the place, had previously been in the Industrial School