CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4097, 13 April 1876, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT.

Thubsday, April 13. (Before V. Pyke, Esq., J.P., and R Paterson, Esq., J.P.)

Drunkenness. —John Gordon and James O’Meara were fined 5s each. Violent Conduct. —Jane M'Leod and Jane Crawford, two very old offenders, were fined LID, or three months’ imprisonment, for the triple offence of drunkenness, violent conduct, and using obscene language. M'Leod on leaving the dock, expressed the opinion that her sentence was “ not much.” Larceny. —Frederick Fitzgerald andChas. Pearson were charged with having, on the 11th December last, at Echuca, in the Colony of Victoria, stolen certain articles, the property of one John Seebeck. The prisoners are charged with eloping with Seebeck’s wife, and carrying away with them a variety of articles alleged to belong to Seebeck, who is a publican residing at Echuca. —Constable Kilfeeder, stationed at Sandhurst, produced warrants signed by Mr Langford, (P.M., for the prisoners’ apprehension; and the depositions taken before the Victorian magistrate of the prosecutor, as follows ; —“ lam a publican, residing at Echuca on 16th of last December. My wife lived with me in my hotel, known as the Robin Hood Hotel, Anstruther street, Echuca. Fred. Fitzgerald and Pearson were boarding with me on that date ; About eight o’clock that evening, I was sitting in the bar parlor. Fred. Fitzgerald asked me to have a drink. He went into the bar to get it, and brought the drink into the parlor. My wife came in with Fred, and had a drink with us. Immediately after I took the drink, which was a glass of beer I found that I had been drugged by snuff being put into my drink. _ My wife asked me for the snuff that morning, which I gave her. 1 managed to get to bed and there fell into a heavy sleep. My property, which I subsequently found was stolen from my house, was safe in my house when I went to bed about 10 p.m. same night. _ I ■was awoke by hearing a horse and dray in my yard. I got up and found the piano, sewing machine, and other goods in the dray. My wife and Fitzgerald were in one of the rooms. I said to them, “What are you doing?” Fitzgerald replied ‘Go to bed, you old fool. * I was so bad from the drug I got I had to go to bed. On the following morning I found my Siano, sewing machine, and other goods escribed in the information had been stolen. I asked my wife what became of the property, when she replied, ‘That is not your business.’ I was unable, from illness, to look after this property, and never suspected anything was wrong till that night about 11 p.m. My servant girl, Elizabeth Burns, told me that my wife, Fred. Fitzgerald, and Pearson went that afternoon to Melbourne and took the goods with them. I never authorised any person to remove those goods from my house. I never sold them to any person. There, was no lien or bill of sale over them, and they were my own bond fide property. There are four other witnesses who can give important evidence in this case. I value all the property stolen from me on this occasion at L 300.” Inspector Mallard mentioned that the police here had succeeded in recovering a good deal of the property alleged to have been stolen. —The Bench remanded the prisoners for a month in order to allow of the Governor’s warrant for their extradition being received* Alleged Fraud. —Arthur Robert Moule appeared in the dock on an amended information charging him with “being present and aiding, abetting, and assisting” one Edward Kellett, to commit an indictable offence.—Mr J. H. Sanders mentioned that Mr Harris, if he had not been engaged elsewhere, would have appeared for the accused. He (Mr Sanders) had only been instructed a few minutes before coming into Court; therefore he asked for a remand, which the Bench agreed to grant till Tuesday, their Worships undertaking in the meantime to consider the question of bail. The Clyde street Assault. — The Bench mentioned that the case of Barnes v. Thomas, set down for Saturday, would be further ad joumed till Tuesday next.