RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3690, 19 December 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Saturday, December 19. (Before His Worship the Mayor and T. Birch, Esq., J.P.) Children. — William Bowie (7), and George Bowie (4), were charged on the information of the police with being neglected children, the person with whom they resided being a habitual drunkard—contrary to section 3 of the Neglected and Criminal ('hildren Ait, 1867. —Each was sent to the Industrial School for five years. Stealing from an Hotel. Charles Fowler was charged, on rem .ud, with steali g from a bedroom in the Commercial j Hotel, Lawrence, on September 15, two diamond studs of the value of LIO. the property of Dr. Carr —Prosecutor said that the three studs produced were in his possession about September 15. They were worth L 5 each. Witness was then stopping at th> 'ommercial Hotel, Lawrence, and accused was employed as servant there. Witness left the hotel for the Tevint on the morning of the 15 hj September, and accused assisted him to pack his things. He last saw the suds on his dressing-table that morning, and on his arrival at the Teviot missed two of them. The other stud was in his shirt when he left Lawrence. He immediately telegraphed his loss to Lawrence. Witne s returned to Lawrence early in October, and again put up at the <'ommercial Hotel. Accused was still there in his old capacity of boots, and witness remarked to him that it was a strange tying, and that the etude

could not have beeii swept away with the dust. Accused replied 'hat Mr and Mrs Anderson made search f r them, but could not find them. After accused had denies all knowledge of the matter, witness said he would give him L 5, if he could find the studs. At th’s time, witness had shown the prisoner the diamond stud which be hj id worn in his shire when at the Teviot—the fellow of the missing ones—John Samuels, of the Ballarat pawn office, and Detective Henderson. who arrested the accused, were examined when the case was befor3 the Court, on Saturday last. Samuels then swore that accused pawned the studs with him.—Accased, who reserved his defence, was fully committed for trial.