MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 409, 4 October 1875, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, October 4. (Before G. L. Mellish, Esq, R.M.) Drunk and Disorderly. James Faulkner, arrested for drunkenness, and •who was suffering very much from the effects of drink, was remanded to Lyttelton for eight days ; three other inebriates were fined 5s each, and Jessie Andrews, a very old offender, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor. Drunk and Committing a Nuisance. — "William Henry Bolton, charged with this offence, committed near the theatre on Saturday night, was fined 20s. Vagrancy.—Alice Beatrice Gray, on remand, was further remanded until the 11th instant. Larceny and Vagrancy. Auguste Ranihitz, a Dane, was charged with above offences. Detective Thomson stated that he arrested the accused the previous day on the North road, on the warrant produced. Christian Ditford, boarding house keeper in Madras street, deposed to accused coming to his place on the 17th of September. He asked for board and lodging, and said he was going to work for Mr Button. On Monday morning, after breakfast, he went out, taking his dinner with him. He said he -°as to receive 8s a day. On Saturday v "iug he left again, and did not return. W° r^: l * lo * an y^ im S f° r the time he .tie did. i- %- g pj ace ji e would no t have stayed at u . cmUt if he had not given accuseu • to WQrk said that he . J Bellamy, for Mr Button. Gloucester street, boarding-house keeper, s„ at ten days at stated that accused stayed mher He his place from about the sth Sep. ' e -. ' ■, (accused) said he came from Ak. was going to work for Mr Button, pu J The accused did not pay him anything, a. - left without giving him notice. He (witness) was under the impression that accused was working for Mr Button. The charge of larceny was then gone into. Detective Thomson produced a book which he found in the portmanteau belonging to accused. Otto If ease stated that accused was employed at his (witnesses) house, painting. The book produced belonged to him, and accused had no right to take it. Valued the book at ss. Benjamin Button, painter, Colombo street, stated that he had no recollection of having employed the accused, nor had he given him any promise of work. Mr Pease told his Worship that accused had been working for him for two months, and during that time he had no reason to find fault with him. It was possible that the book found in the portmanteau belonging to him might have got into it by mistake, while he (Mr Pease) was moving. His Worship said he would disnn>s the charge of larceny. On the charge of vagrancy accused would be sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, witli hard labor.

BlCjreating a Distubbance. —Robert MacCleran, charged with creating a disturbance

near the Q.C.E. hotel on Saturday night, and attempting to provoke a breach of the peace, win lined 10s.

Embezzlement. —C. W. Worger was charged i'ii remand with embezzling monies belonging to the Canterbury Club Company. Mr (iari'ick appeared to prosecute. The accused told his Worship that when he was remanded on Saturday, his solicitor left the Court under the impression that his case would come on at eleven o'clock. His Worship told him he had had plenty of time to have informed his solicitor of the hour at which the Court would sit. If the solicitor was not present, it was a matter between him and the accused. George Stead called, stated that he was a director of the Canterbury Club Company. The certificate of incorporation of the company had been filed, and was then an exhibit at the Supreme Court. He produced the company's rough cash book. An entry had been made in it in the defendant's handwriting, which had been pasted over. The entry is " Chas. Reed, £10." Mr Reed is a holder of live shares. He had paid three calls, and at this time there two calls of £1 each owing on the five shares, which would make the £lO. The receipt produced for the £lO is in the handwriting of the accused. In the press letter copy-book produced, at page 45, there is a press copy letter in the handwriting of accused. [Letter read, dated 2nd April, addressed to Mr Reed, acknowledging receipt of the cheque for £lo.] Though the entry for the amount has been made in the rough cash book, a piece of paper has been pasted over it, and Mr Reed, so far as the books are concerned, still owes the company that money. It was accused's duty to have credited the company with the amount, and to have paid the money into the company's account at the Bank of New South Wales. After the evidence had been read over, the accused reserved his defence, and was committed to take his trial at the criminal session of the Supreme Court. Three other charges of embezzlement were also preferred against the accused. One, a cheque for £3, for calls for shares which had been forwarded by Dr Donald, the receipt of which accused had acknowledged but had not made any entry of it in the company's books. Another, three amounts—viz, £2 ss, £1 Js, and £l, paid him by the billiard marker at the club, and which had not been entered, and the third a cheque for £6 6s 3d, paid to accused by Mr E. G. Griffith, member of the club, which had been entered in the club cash book, but had not been paid into the club's account at the bank. After the evidence had been taken, accused was committed to take his trial on each charge, and admitted to bail on|his own recognisances.