MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 35, 10 July 1874, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, July 10. (Before C. 0. Bowen, Esq, R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. William Burns, who had been brought to the depot the previous day on a dray and very drunk was fined 20s. James Humphries, for being drunk and committing a nuisance in Hereford street, was fined 10s. Lucy Tracy was arrested for drunkenness. The prisoner had frequently been before the Court on the same charge. Inspeator Buckley and Sergeant Kennedy proved that since the accused was last before the Court she had been seen late at the theatre, in bars of publichouses, and accosting men in the streets. His Worship told the accused that he had frequently given her chances, and on the last occasion had taken care that her husband should provide her with maintenance. Still she would persist in drinking and misbehaving herself. For her own sake he would send her to prison for one year. LARCENY. Robert Adams was arrested by ChiefDetective Feast for stealing a watch from Mr T. A. Phillips of Rockwood station. Chief-Detective Feast examined, stated— I went yesterday afternoon with Detective Benjamin to the junction of the Coal and Bealey Tracks, and I asked prisoner for the time of day, and at the same time I took the watch and chain produced from him. I told him he was charged on warrant with stealing that watch and chain. ; from the Rockwood station, and were the property of Mr Phillips. Prisoner said he picked the watch up and had never stolen anything in his life. That watch and chain answers the description of one reported to the police in the latter end of May last as having been stolen from Mr Phillips. The watch is marked with the initials TAP, The Detective also stated that he did not think he would have been able to find the prisoner so soon. He had heard Mr Phillips was in town and left word at his lodgings, but had not seen him. He would ask his Worship for a remand,

Eemanded until to - morrow at eleven o’clock.