RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3661, 16 November 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Monday, November 16. (Before J, Bathgate, Escp, R. M.) _Dkl’nkennkss. Frank Thomas, charged with this offence, was let off with a caution. Vadkancy—Mary Donovan was charged with having no lawful means of support.— r.onstable Scott said that accused came up to him when on duty in George street a. three o'clock yesterday morning, and iasiste i m beta ; arrested, as she had n » money, no means, and no [ lave to go to. On the previous morning, at four o'clock, he saw her waudeiing aijoub the streets.—His Worship said he did not know what became of the deicrreni effects of a gaol if a woman went to a co. stable and vo.uutarily bis night him to lock her up. Accused said that she came out here in the Caroline in July Lst, that she declined to go to the Itefuge, but, th t if she were let off she would go to her sister-in-law (with whom she had formerly been staying) at Tokomairiro. His Worship said he cou d not send an able-bodied woman to gaol under the circumstances, and discharged the accused.

stealing Pipes.—hdwarJ Ryan, a young lad, was charged, on the information of Samuel Doodeward, with stealing from his shop, in George street, one meerschaum pipe of the value of Gs.—Prosecutor said that he missed fourteen or fifteen pipes from a case in his shop on the Bth iust., and that the pipe produced was one of the number. He had also missed from thirty to forty pounds of tobacco, in Jumps .at a time, during the last three weeks.—Constable Bam “said i-hat, on going into a hut eff Stuart street, he found accused smok ug the pipe ideutifi ;d by last witness us his proproperty.—John Anderson, a lad also in custody on a charge of stealing pipes, was called by the accused. He said that he gave the pipe produced and three sticks of tobacco to accused, they being a portion of some tobacco and pipes given to him by a lad named Humphreys, m Doodeward’s employ, and who was now up country with Mr Doodeward’s brother. He told Constable Bain when he and accused were arrested that he gave the pipe to accused. —Constable Bain, on bein'* ic called, said that when the accused were auested the last witness denied all know* ledge of the pipe.—tub-inspector Mallard said that Humphreys was as bad as the other two.— Prisoner : It is not fair to say that because I have been bad ouco I am always going to follow the same racket. - (Laughter.) Bain had refused to search • Cochrane’s boys, who were present, because he used to cut wood for their father.—Suol: specter Mallard asked to re call Biin, in order to give him an opportunity of nenylnt* the accusat.on.—Constable Bain re Young Ryan accused Anderson and the two Cohranes of having been implicated in the toobery, and said that if I searched them i would find some of the stolen property on each of them. I found none of the property on Cochrane.- His Worship said the case would be incomplete without Humphreys. The case was accordingly adjourned for a month, accused to be liberated in the meantime on his own recognisance of L2O Win. Audertou was then charged with a similar offence. He a.id that tao pipe was g you to him by Humphrey.. —Constable .Bam said that when he accused of the theft ho denied having the pipe. After being searched, and the pipe found on him, he said that he got it at Waihcmo. l J r< secutor identified the pipe produced as hisp'operfcy. It had been stolen from his shop timing the week—riis Worship said this cise differed from the previous one, two false statements having been made by the accused.—Detective Shury gave evidence as to the prisoner’s character, after which he was sent to gaol for two months. Obscene Language. Uavid Dunford was charged with using obscene language on the Abbotsford load, Green Island, and with

dsrnagi-g Constable Vernon -■ uniform to the extent of 30s—Mr E. Cool- defended.-—i m the first ■ barge d. feud.vat m a fined [Os and costs ; and on the olh t mulcted in ss, and ord red to pay the amount or damage ti me —in default, fourteen days’-imprisonment.