Feilding B.M. Court

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 108, 12 April 1888, Page 2

Feilding B.M. Court

c «, a Wednesday, April 11, 1888. (Before 8. Goodbehere and J. & p Thompson, Esejs., J.P.S.) r LAKCBNY. 5 Susan Harvey was charged with 0 stealing, on the 10th instant, a pair of boots, the property of Mrs S. Pagan, ralue, 8s 3d. She pleaded not guilty. t Mary Ana Fagan deposed : She j was in business in Feilding, boot sel- * ling; there was a fire on Tuesday r morning, and some of her goods were 1 put out on the roadside; identified 9 the boots produced ; never sold a pair 1 to prisoner, or authorised her to take f them. } Prisoner said she bad never j seen Mrs Fagan before, to her kmow- , ledge. I A. J. Richardson made a deolarai tion and deposed : He was a settler r in Feilding ; was at the fire on Tues--1 day; assisted to remove goods from 1 the burning store ; saw the Constable { take the boots from the woman, who t turned her back, and walked away ; , could not swear, but prisoner resembled the woman. Constable Meehan deposed : He was on duty at the fire in Manchester street looking after the goods; saw accused put her hands as if she had something under her cloak; opened > her cloak, aad the boots fell to the 1 ground ; told her to go home. . By the Court: Held her until the ; boots fell to the ground ' r did not see prisoner putting wings into a box. ; Prisoner — on oath — stated she went > to the fire ; expected to see her hus- , band; when she saw the careless manner in which the boots and things were thrown about, went to assist in putting them into a box ; the clothing she bad on was scanty, and in covering herself with her ulster the boots became covered up; had been fourteen years in Feilding, and had sever before been accused of theft. By the Police: The goods were thrown on the side of the street, and ; people were walking on them ; would swear the ulster she then had on was the one she wore at the fire. Mrs Fagan, recalled, said she did not observe the prisoner; was in too excited a state to notice anything in particular. Constable Meehan said prisoners' eldest son was over 14 years, and her... youngest was about 2 yean. Mr Marshall, dairyman, said the family was suffering from, poverty. When he went to the honse that morning there was not a mouthful of „ >iead in the house for the children,

xrho were now next door to a starving condition. | The Court said they believed the boots were taken with a feloneous intent, and prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned until four o'clock in the afternoon. The boots were ordered to be returned to Mrs Fagan. This Day. (Before R. Ward, Esqr., R.AL> GK Q, EttU, Bate Collector, r. Thoa, Jones.— Claim 20s Bd. Judgment for plaintiff and costs. Charles Henry v. Neil Duffy, claim £2 12s; E. Robinson, claim £1 8s 6d; Herbert Balfour, claim £1 3s; W. Broughton, claim Us. Judgment for plaintiff and costs in each case. G. T. H. Lyne v. L. A. Caldwell. — Claim £2 4s lid. Judgment for plaintiff and costs. M. Keea y. Tuke.— -Claim 20s. Judgment lor plaintiff and costs 10s. E. Drury v. Pekhanna.— Claim £14 16s. This was a case arising out of a previous judgment of the Court. Judgment for plaintiff and costs 61s. Bailey and Co. v. Peter Anderson. —Claim £8 0s 6d. Judgment for plaintiffs and costs 16s. Same v. D. Eamsay.— Claim £11 2s Id. Judgment for plaintiff and costs. G. T. H. Lyne t. Kiwitea Eoad Board.— Claim £5 1 55. Judgment fox plaintiff and costs. ' 8. J. Thompson v. T. Jlitchell.— Claim £14 9s 9d. Judgment foi plaintiff and costs. nJDOMKKT BUMMOHB. E. Bobinson v. M. Bell.— Claim £1 6s. Adjourned for one month. [Left Sitting.]