RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3955, 28 October 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, PORT CHALMERS.

Thursday, October 28, (PeforeT. A. Hansford, Esj , R.M.) Drunkenness —Peter Carton and Dennis ’•nri’h were each fired ss, or twenty-four hours ; David Parris 10s or fort ye. got bou’ s’ Iheft. —Charles Johnson, a Dane, war charged with having on the Ist of March last, stolen from the hj« use of Mary Dean, a one-pound note, two sovereigns, and two hafBovcreigns.—Mary Dean daosed that on the day in question she was iu the hottse with ler little girl; the money w;jh on the kitchen mantelpiece—the gold wrapped in the note. Suddenly, the prisoner and another man rufhod in at the back do >r, the latter asking for some clothes that had been left to be washed. As witness turned to the bedioom to get the things she noticed the prisoner go to the mantelpiece and put his hand on it. She thought this was to get a match. When the rm n had been gone an hour she missed the money. She gave information to the police the same j evening, A difficulty about an interpreter having been overcome, Mrs Dean, in reply to the Dench, slated that she had met the defendant ;-t the Chain Hills '.unnel about two months ago. and offered, if he returned the money, to say no more about it.—Peter Paterson a Dane, stated that he met the prisoner at, the Chain Hills tunnel at the beginning of last March. The la ter then had no money, and witne.-s lent him I7s to pay his fare to I’ort Chalmers And the repairs to a watch. 5 hey came to Port Chalmers together and afterwards went to Mrs Deans Witness dal t ot s-e what Johnson did reside the 1 ouse, but when 'hc\ r left the house witness olvervod prisoner hud a note and Nome gold. "U it ness asked him where ho got it from, and ne replied that, the unstress of (he house where they had dinner gave it to him. Ho then paid witness the 17s he on cd him.—Margaret Sayers, keeper of the bo .nl ug house referred to by the lust witness, swine that she did not know prisoner, and had never giv, n him any money, Sergeant Morgano si.i l when jnisoner, who he >'as sure understood En lish, was arrested, ho detimd that he had ever been in Mrs Dean’s honse.—His Worship was quite «ure tie accused understood English and idso was guilty; but m order that the questum of whether he understood ughsli might be plm-.ed beyond disi ute, he would be remand d for onewei k ; and then, if found necc sary, the case would be again gone into before a thorough competent interpreter. i