CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4052, 21 February 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Monday, February 21. (Before "V. Pyke, Keq., R.M., A. Mercer, J.P., and W. J, M. Lamacfa, Esq., Drunkenness Joseph Gough, an o’d pensioner, was dis han-ed; Gtor.e Niccol was fined 6a, ia default 24 hour,’ imprisonment; Hugh J-hnston, 20s, or 14 d»ys’;Gorg" Horl-y, James Greg/, John Kely, James Hunter, and William Hemsley, for being d-unk on Sunday, we e all fined 10s, or three d»ys’ imprisonment, this being their first offence.— H-m ley was further fin&d 20s. or 7 days’ imprisonment for using obscene language. Vagrancy.— Jane Henderson, charge i with using obsc.ne admitted t e ofibnre. Slje was further charged with having no -awful mear-s of sup tt-rt.—Prisoner: I have means ; I’m kept Mr Pyk ; She -dmits the offence. —Mr Mercer: She s ys she is kept. - Mr Pyke: We’l, that i< admitting the offence.—On the first change she was fii-d 20s, or 7 days' inpr.sonment; and for having no law ui means of support, <o thrre months’ imi ris nment with hud labor, the sentences to becumulattve.

Alleged Forgery —George Hyde C mpbell was ag.ia brought up oh th * charge of forgin,' in February of last year a bill for LUI odd. drawn by ?*. J. Reeves in f-»Vor of Calv rt and 0 mpbelL —Mr Pyke: Inspe tor Mal'aid, W’’at do you intend to d> io t. is case ?—M Cook: in this cas-j I appear fi- Mr tou , ami bavtf to a«k the Bench 1 1 allow the case to si and over till to-morrow, a-s Mr Stout is out-of town.—lnspector M-llaid: In answer to yout Wor-hips, I would inform the Court that no c mmuiucau'on has been received ytt from Victor»a. and I wou'd ask that a remind-be granted for days, and of course if word comes in the interval the accused may then be b: ought up—Mr Cooc pointed ou 1 * 1h- Ing time the warrant had been issue 1, and too £..ct of the informant havin; left ‘he ■ o ony —ThHooch: Tie Wouaul for days will be g an r ed, * n the understanding that iheie is no further remand aft r th.,t If ihere is no evidence by that time the ca e will ! e dismissed.

{M p Me cer left ihe Bench) Stone throwing.—Lew s Israel was changed by Edward Pritchard with thriving stones on to the loof of his housj in It tt.ay si e t. Mr E. Cook appeared for complainant.—A fine ol

ailfl was imjosed, the Bench tot | maingthftt la future the full penar y of DIO would be inflated. Horse stealing.— E Iward Price was cbarvea with stealing, on or about December 6, five horse s !, the p opertv of N. J. B. M'Gregor, of Silveratreim—-Neil Joseph Bruce M'Gregor : I am a farmholder residing at Silverrtream, North TaierL A mong*t other stock on my nm I had, on or about the 6th day of December la t twt) mares, two foils, and a-three-year old clt The two mares you would hardly know, being very rotljha'ike; they wore “ fly-mown ’ -.'leys. One was branded with my own biand. “N. J in large legible Homan cujn’tal* on the neir shoulder; the other was not branded 'it all The foiil-t were that > ear’s foft », and were tmbrund'd. The colt was not branded. I bought the colt with the n branded mare as a fo 1 from Mr Ke ne-‘y. The co th id black points and a blaz* on t;e f .oe. The foals were bay col r I would nt taka LIOO for the whol* five horses. When I Ist -aw them th»y were about eight or ten hundre ya ds fr m my hous . I don’t i ememb rwh n I miss dth m, but I neat heard o' the two m<rea and the two foal* bring sold to Mr Cooper at East Paie i. T then communicated with the police. I never sold the five horse* in que-tion to rhe accuse d or to any other person, or an any nd to dispo e of them in my behalf. accu ed?—Witness: I do not. I never saw im. Who is he?— The Inspctor: Their Worships will not allow me to tell you qr I should very much ike to. —W .tness: Is he that gentleman -nthe dock?— To** Inspector; Y«. —Alexander M'Gr-go*: lam the son of the last w tness, and reside with hj m at the North T.deri In the m -uth of December to conse?uenco of om*.tbing I hea d J visited the arm of Mr Coop©", at East T i ri, a thCra found two mares and two fowls describe ! by •he last witless as hj s property.—Kobert Goodism, cattle-de-ler residing at. St. Kilda, stated that the prisoner called at hishou-e on the 6th or 7tb of December last to borrow a •• are for the purpose, as he a'Dged, to go to Mr Sutherland’s sde at Tokomairro Witness hid known the prisoner previously, and so lent him a mre, addle, and b idle. He retu>ned on the 10th riding the horse he had bor-owel from witness. At this time he had wi hj him two grey mares, two brown foals, and a black horse wi hj a - blaze on the face. Witase dM not know the ho-sas, Prisoner - id Sutherland had a<<ked him to eell them for not less than L2O for the four horses. Wit ness then negotiated for the sale of the horses, and bought the two grey mans and foals i r m him for L2O. He wanted to aeli the black colt for L 25, but witness refused to buy it at that price. Wi n<ss produced the re ceipt for the mares ai d £ a’s, paying him L 5 th-n, and g ving hits a receipt f<»rLls O ' the following Monday. Witness >. aw accused sign the tec ipt. He took poss ssion «f the mares and foals, and allowed th • c It to r main in the paddi ok with them at accused’s t isk. i'he whole ofthmgot out ot the paddock, and wi ness next saw them ia the South Dunedin pound. He allowed them to remain tbeie, and onS-tur-day the llth.December, entered the a for'sale by iVtessr« Wright, titephnson, and Co. After be bad r leaded the whole five from the pound, wr ness took the colt to his pad look, but after rem doing there thiee or four days he st-ayed aw iy. and witness bad neve * seen him since. Witness was present on i l,e 11th when the mvres nd foal- w re rold by Messrs Wright S ephenson, and Co., to Mr G-corga < o >per of East Tateii fo< the sum fL3S —B Accu-e l: 1 told you on the S itnrdiy before the sde that I had lost four grey hor-ea It -Id you I would pay you for your trouble if you searched for them and found them, and that I would le d vouahorset look o the'u. Vou told moon thFriday you ha ; the five horses by aucti n. t told you I would give y u L 8 for th- mare, L 9 for another, and Ll2 for the colt.—Mr Pyke (to accused): I have cautioned yon before and yet you will per ist in, metaphorically speaking, hanging yourself w.th your own rope. - Piisoner: But 1 mu it have the truth. —As he cot.tinu d making irregular statements the Bench told wit .e?s to stand down, and informed t'ie prisoner that he w< uld hereafter have an opportunity of saying what he want* d. —Prisoner : Yes, but he’s the mm (pointing signiHcant'y 1 1 the witness) who ought to he 1 eked up.—-fohn Stephenson * f Wright S ephenson, and Co..auctioneer*, staged th twhen Go.dison brmght him the horse* for *a e iu December he r- marked that they had been M G egm’s. God son repli d that he had ln ught them from Mr inorgeCo >per,of . ast f aie.i.nnd Goo ns -n got the proceeds. James Milner proved the sale of two mares and two foals on behalf of Egbert Goodi on on the 11th December last, i hey were et.t-reo in the sale-book -s sold to George Cooper. Taieii—George Cooper, of Kast Taieri deposed to the purchase of the 'wo mares with them foals on Dec mber 11. —Witness before signing the depositions wanted (o know who was gang to pay him for his at- < endauce, and waa told by Mr Pyke that Her Majesty the Queen might p-sribly rett e bis little bill after the case was concluded.—lu answer to the usual challenge prisoner said: I don’t 1 ke that m*n (God-sou) raying what he has. { did not steal the horses, but 1 was paid for bringing them t> town by a gentleman who gave his n.*me as Geo g* Stuherland at the hotel where I w>s “taying. —Prisoner wan com- 1 i ted for trial—bail being fixed, himself at i .200 and two Mireties of LIOO each.