CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4078, 22 March 1876, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday. Maboh 22 (Before H. S. Fish, Fpq, and A. Mollison. Esq., J.P/s.) ’

; Drunkenness, —David Clarkson was fined 10s, in default forty-right horns’ imprison ment. Vagrancy.—Ah Tou«, a diL.pidated-'ooMfe Celestial, was sent to gaol for three months for having no lawful means of support. The Corona’s Jewellery Robbery Frank De Flam was charged on the inSornution of Constable Vern-.n of Green Is and with having at sea. ojv board the ship Cor na while on her voyage, f r .,m Loudon to Port Chalmers, within the pant six months, teionionsj stolen one gold hunfcng w.Jch, a gold chain, a cor-1 cross, two gold lockets, a |old gu,rd, two go d of the period 1 ckets, a mok“°ei si v*r bracelet, silv r earring-, grid fringe earrings, gold_pf the period earrmgs, the whole of the vriue of L6B, the proper y of Fielericka Ellen Jones. the iirutk of »his jewelLry m tier. < onstable Vernon has vei y successfull y 0 t tire whole of the jewellery, and now of course I shall have to Sli dlc ‘ mei4fc . ao I havo to ark for a and then this man and the p sonei proviously berore the Court can be "S' 1 o»,noe. Cm“bl" ttl> jf *dl«ry >nd >ay • rr gt ,t v~^ ons' 0 ns' abe Vei no nproiuv ed the jewellery, whuh had been broker! up hi®o yester^ 1 1,8011 * Dwelling house.-—Wm Hankin was oharged, on remaud, with having mi February 16 stolen from the Waver ey •Boarding-house ,a quantity of goods of the value of 18-r. the property of John M'Qnin, of Chrmtohtkrcb. Inspector Millar.:! asked for a xorther remand; Prosecutor bad been summoned fr*m Chr stehqrch, but the st&nner bad de ained, ho doubn by the very heavy gales,—A further remand till this day week was granted. Dangerous Characters.- -Thoma* Hill, i a “.f^7^ r, ; Bfc ’ Henry/RodgersJones. and John Burgess Wrto cha.ged wih bavin* no lawful “ ea MW'. Mr C< ok defender!-Xn-intimated at the outs t that he did not intend to call rvidenc-un'ess the B-nch requested rim to do s \ He appnhended th t prisi.iura, be ng nrrested under the VazianeAc 1 !, it was for them to show liow thev «bt their hvmg.T-Mr took fSked that, the careshou d be axeo.«ree.» T , It was the practice of th, OourLf- r the pfihfiaito makekirit rf priMm facie • f r\ * .-JKil tkrltihl ,v * : i»l'-JSV

.'•aid that Inspector Ma'la d had better call wit* ne*se->, —Sergeant Andei sou gave evidence regarding the character of the accused. For some time past they had been under police survillance, and Hill had made complaint t ; at the other three had got him into a room tb talk over a game they were to carry on at the races, and assaulted him. Everest sal t t>>e cause of the row was becau e Hill had robbed a man of some money and wo fid not share the spoil. Everest had receiv. d six years penal servitude for robbery under arms and had al-o b.'en convicted for assault and us'i g obscene language Hill i nly cam out of gaol last week, after serving a sentence ot three months for being a rogue and a vagabt.nd—Constable Conn said he had known Jones on the West Coast for a number of years, wh -re he was a notorious character. He tried for a gold rolb.ry at the Ba k of New Ze dan i, Oreti, and convicted for stealing jeweller from a shop at Rosa. Mrs Ins'ey, wife of the proprietor of the London T-ivt-rn, recognis.d Euro ess and Jones as f avip. ; taken a room in the Tavern, and forcibly removed a lock fro-n a cirpei bag.—lnspector Mallatd rernirked that they were all very dangerous fellows, and he wou’d be glad when they were out of Dunedin.—The Bench sentenced Everest and Jones each to a month’s imprismmer.t. wrh a caution; Hill would bo dscharged with h«rd labor, and Burgess reman ed unt.l Monday to give him an opportunity of proving th t he had lawful means of support.—Mr Fish took ..occasion to compliment the police upon the shrewdness they had displayed in making the arrest, and said he had little doubt that it .would have bten danger us for prisoners to be at large during the races. Assault.— Jane Mon&on charged Ah Ming with assaulting her. case was dismissed.