CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4058, 28 February 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

MOh'DAt, FmWJMJ

(Before V. Pyke, Esq, , Rid., and A. Mercer. Esq.,.T.£)

Dbdhkeknbss.—ibseph'Williaiirt wks fi'hedi ss, with the alternative of hours ij imprisji'inent. ’I •* A BiaoftPEßhT Prlsoneb,— William Laihliert; was fined 10s, in default thre a ,days’ hnpWkoh- ! ment, for being dlrUnk. He was farther to rg-d with using, bsoeue language, and with assault-1 ing Constable Porter, prisoner admitted both j offences, saying that he was drUnk and was not j aware of what he wa< doing.—For using ob-' scene language he was fined 20s, in default* fourteen days’; and for assaulting the constable 1 40s, or fourteen days’—the, sentences to be; cumulative. •.

Alleged Fo«obet.—Geo. Hyde Campbell qur< endered to his bail oh the remand chaise oif forgng a bill for LI4I 17s Bd.—lnspector Mallard: Y»ur Worship, the-e has been, nothing heard from Victoria, and 1 9m ihstructt-d to ask for a further remand. If it is granted the Commissioner instructs me to say he wM telegraph to Victoria and. ask whether the witness's can be fo nd or not. One is in one Colony, the other In the other The accused has only'been remanded twice, and Under the Foreigners Offenders' ct one may fairly ask for a remand for a mon'L—Mr Stout: Tne Act does not apply to this case.— Inspector Mallard: Well/ it is a case something parallel to it at any rate, because the witnesses are in one Colony,, and the offender in the other; it is only mice versa. Stout submitted the telegraph not now to be called into 'requisition. It had Been open for a week, and it was twice intimated by the Bench that a perpetual remand would be unfair, and that it would pot be ; granted., Be submitted as from the firatthat the Inspector had no status here at.alL - However,it; was not pece'isnry to raise that question, since there was not sufficient .evidence;,to justify a further remand. Accused was not going to leave the C louy, and if prosecutor cam* here he migh* be re-arrested. Fie submitted that the case should be dismissed; it was unfair that accused should have to get bail. every week.. putting bim to endless ezt et.se. Aceused had come here a,thw own free will to see his estate was prop rly settled, at th- request <i th’.* <ru tees lie was not. afraid to come here and meet any chat ge that.might be brought against him. The case >hopldbe dl-missed, and- if the police could get any further. .evidence a frtah information might' be laid and proceedings commenc'd denovo ; -Mr Py’-e said the Booh did hot feel inclined to grant a further remand. He had seen in the* Victorian papers . a reprint of that marvellous fable in the 1 New. Zealand Times ’ the blunders that had come under his judicial hotioe for year? thqt was one of the greatest. The accused was oh his way down here when arrested at Wellington, snd' if the police had wanted him they could have, got him when in town., ftiia Worship) did hot tjupk there wise the least probability of nrostoutortßpeves) coming here, and it was cruelty to seep accused here- Accused would, therefore, be discharged. Lahoent as a Bailee.—Wm. Yielding was charged by Nathaniel Campbell with, stealing. on ~<® . about. .. Me? .a. horse, harness, and cart, of which he was the bailee. Mr B. Cook defended. Pros* out >r deposed that he was residing at the Caledonia Hotel, King street, Dunedin, with the prisoner, on M a V 22 last. About that day he was the owner of a horsC, which Wias in the Water of Leith stables. Witness agreed with tbe accused to look after the home, and a few days after he granted the accused permission to work the hotseto save him the price of food. There was nothing said about the harness that was then in the stable. Witness bad not seek tbe harness since The horse he saw on Wednesday Heat; it was then ina springcartin Princes stt-eet. ■ He never authorised the accused to sell ’ the hbfte or did-he give him penaitoioa to dispose of the harness. The whole he valued at L*2s.—A If. Tunder. cabman, stated that he bought the hdrse and harness in question fr m Erisoner. Prisoner wa« committed fortiLl, ail being allowed, himself inLIOO, and two approved sureties of LSO each. > '