CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 4149, 14 June 1876, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT.

Wednesday, June 14. [Before E. ff. Ward, Esq., and T. Birch, Esq., J.P.’s.)

Drunkenness.— John Walker, who had given the arresting constable considerable trouble, was fined 20s, in default three days’ imprisonment. Stealing Lead.— John Brown was charged, on the information of James Leys, with stealing a quantity of copper piping, of the value of Ls.—Complainant, master of the s.s. Wallabi, stated that his steamer was undergoing repairs here. A , quantity of copper piping removed from the machinery on to the jetty had been stolen. He recognised portion of that produced as the same. It was worth 4s per pound.—Detective Neil visited Ah Him’s house in Stafford street on the 3rd inst., and asked him if he had any copper piping on his premises. Ah Him denied that he had. In a small, dark room, off the back portion of the shop, witness found a quantity of piping concealed. That produced was the same. Ah Him said he bought it from a prisoner for 6|d. Witness then arrested prisoner, who admitted selling the piping for 6sd per pound,—Prisoner said he found the piping on thereclaimed ground.—He was sent to gaol for two months.

Receiving Stolen Property.— Ah Him, cabinetmaker, was charged, on the information of Detective Henderson, with receiving a quantity of copper piping, the property of James Leys, knowing it to be stolen. Mr F. R. Chapman defended.—lnspector Mallard stated that 'the police, in executing a search warrant on prisoner’s premises the other day discovered a very large quantity of lead rub down into ingots stowed away in a very dark room, and prisoner had evidently been dealing in the metal very largely. From time to time various imporrters had missed lead in rolls, and had reported their losses to the police, who had been unable to find out where the piping had gone. He (the Inspector) did not say prisoner had got it all, but the presumption was that a large quantity pf it had gone through the hands of prisoner, who was charged with receiving copper-piping, knowing it to be stolen. The low price at which the copper was purchased, andthe surrounding circumstances, showed that prisoner must have had sufficient guilty knowledge to know that it was not honestly came by.— —Messrs R. Clifford, R. Blackie, and E. Lyons gave prisoner a good character.—He was discharged.