RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3685, 14 December 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Monday, December 14. (Before J . Bathgate, Esq., H.M.) DiiU' KRxx ESS. [Tchard Beatty, Richard Murray, William Todd, Kenneth MT-Gnzie, nnk Mizabcth Kdwards, charged with this offence, were let off with a caution. .A Series or Jetty Thefts.—Charles iller was charged on the information ololm Weye Stephens, laborer, ui hj scaling fiom his dwelling-house, on the Htli one watch, two beds, and one scarf, of the ya.ue of 2->s.— Accused had ben invited into prospciror’s house by the latter’s hou=ekeep jr, and on going aw>y had removed the articles referred to. He was sent to taol for two months. Accused was then charged on the information of Percy Greaves with stealing from the Sussex Hotel, on the 9th mst., one pair drawers and one pair sock'. The property had been stolen from a clothes line iu the yard at the rear of the hotel When accused was arrested by Detective Bain the stolen things were found iu his p sscsJon. For this offence he was sent to gaol for one mouth.—He was further charged by Patiick O’Brien with stealing from the Munslcr Arms Hotel one bottle of brandy and the sum of eight shillings .•ceased was in prosecutor’s hotel on the" 12th in<, and prosecutors attention being dir cted to him he found a bottle of brandy—his property — under accw ed’s coat. He then looked at the till and found it ha I been emptied and accused decamped. When accused was areested, a letter, now identified by prosecutor as having been in his till on the ay in question, was found on (is person Se .- tem ed to two mouths’ imuriso ment,—Oo the following further charges of theft he was thus sentenced Stealing one silk haudkeronief, or the value one ship in.', the property of Mary Anne Faulkner, fro u a clothes line, one month’s imprisonment ; two shirts, of the value of sixteen sh Hinge, the property of 1 hum us Tieru. y, from a clothes line off Station! street, one month’s imprisonment ; on the information of Henry S. Glaike, stealing an album, containing photo grapba. of the v due of five shillings, from his house iu Staff ml street, one mouth’s imprisonment ; one case, containing two lancets, of the value o' ten shil lags, the property of Dr vs. Q. Honey will, from the Sussex Hotel, two months’ imprieoataept, with hsfrs

lab>r ; ami one gold locket, of the value of twenty shillings, the property of vVilliam P. Wilson, from the u s?x Hotel, two months’ imprisonment, or in all twelve mouths’ imprisonment, with hard labor, the sentences to be cumulative.—His Worship, after characterising the various offences as impudent ami ungrateful (accused having recived shrlter at the hands of one f the parties and then robbed him, proceeded to state : Might thefts, and some of vn aggravated character, have been committed by one person within a week. I have to compliment the constable (Bait.) and all the parties concerned on the alacrity displayed in the apprehension of the prisoner. Damaging rivate Property.—Ca herine Keil y was charged, on the information of Mary Ann Adams, with wilfully breaking two pa"es of gDas, the value of 2*, in her house in Great King strict.—She was fined '.•2, or one month s imprisonment, and order to pa l- the dam ige done. E lectrd Child. William Pringle, 'even years of ace was charged with being i neglected chi d.—Air B it ton, master ol the l nduatri-.l Zchool, explained that tin boy’s tern? of committal expired on theiSth tilt., but witness had not discharge I Irm til! this morning, as he bad been attacked by measles <he lad had no friends : the mother was dead, and the child was sent to the school in the first instance because the father had run away and left him homeless —The lad was now sent to he school for the full term of s-vea years.