THIS DAY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 26, 13 September 1882, Page 3

THIS DAY.

f Bef or k til W_H»i Esq,' -I.M-. and F Lethbeidge, Esq., J.P.) The depositions'taken last Saturday, in the, .case, B#ti ft Walter sj - for , laTpejry of a wat-el-. were read over. The Magi£tratfraddrfesfl#Mhe prisoner, and asked her if she wished|to make any .-statement — duly cautie»ing her. The prisoner; wstyoned her jstatementf untrl'Mr Pririr^Bad _,ddr'essed the" Court on "the evidence fflfJthe : prosecution. Mary Ana Walter? .deposed : Mrs Belfit lent her watck; witness said she did not w^h'her^husbSgd to know she had lent it r^e~(th'e prisoner) i.lent^ the. witness twb hooks ;'. *ri_aess ' -aid her' husband was fond of-reading ; before she . '(the prisoner-) left? f he ibqoksj 6he : #iidshe •was going to take tnemjo her mother; Mrs Bel fit said r that, if she did no,* leave; the book's -he wo_u\d 'not lend the watch ; "-did'-tot 'see '^fe-fif! ; the}i ' left f Cr Wellhigtpn'', ssm'e'ri ir.ested, a*ked Campbell what iit was for ; ihe toldvher; khe said: .thtiti could ■hot^be; as. thei watch was lent ; made. , same statement. at, the Wellington police station j was advised to make 'no 'eh. fence 'hr the" Court 'at Wellington, and did not do ; so ; whien painpbefiiswonetshb tOoM tlie watoh,' did- not •contradict Jaim, "a_ she .was advised not to <lo so. /.;• -iii- .» _>.!■• I' ■ .Tames Hugh deposed? Sold the watch to Mrs Belfit a^ct identified it ; the present value of flic watch is not more than £4 lO^as' it 1 i's 5 ih hadordert and would <^^s-t'6irafitm i Tfcpa ; ir. 7 '' ' Cross-eiatoined-i Would -sill' it for £4 10s. ---.i:.':- ''I- '■''"' ' M>.-I?riqr asked the: Court, to deal sumn^rrily . , wiJth / thp , case„ , by amending the luforra^Uoa'ajad. ja^akipg: the value of the article' s'tbip_u'l<?ss tlian 4?5. The amended information was read to accused, and she -.gain pleaded hot guilty to tW. charged oil: -_•:'■- :i n> • •■'■ '• Mr frior ,»iddiieps«4 fche Bench for the defence^ . j „;.,,„, „ c „,.,._ , The Trench found her guilty, and seatenped her, to one month's imprisonment in Wrin^-hm gabi Hkrd labor. MarriW«rj_e*'v H.'Hbrtte. (Under the [ Destitute Persons ActJ) ! '- ">" •- > Defendai»-'i)le_.d_a' not .guilty, to a Charge, eij failing to. support his wife and 4* children. , . ■_ i „ ' . Mary Horfte deposed : Had 4 children; her TTus^i_^lcfr"Eer"Telri weeks" ' ago, without mpney or provisions ; got some money itKls mominfe-^£2 -the first she had -received for 11 ;weeksj the' Benevolent Society and the- neighbors had been

! supplying her with food ; her husbant j,iomi- I her £'i per month, but he hae not fulfilled that promise E.l! Wgh*. ifon. Sec. of the Be ' nevoid i: iS eiety, ti. -posed : Iv Augus' last wr- s nt for to see the Clerk to th< Bench -I'lbii! Hn: ne's children, who won ' -r.irrin^; i <• gav<- relief amounting to 12i tid ; on another occasion, 15s ; Home ii one of the best laborers in Feilding, and can earn 8§ per day ; Home stated ht had not received any money until yestera dayHome was ordered to pay 20s week'intojthe Court, and find security to amount of £20 to secure the payment. Failing to find this security, he was to be imprisoned for three mouths. A number of unimportant debt cases were heard, and the Court then adjourned. "