MAGISTRATES' COURTS

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 677, 21 August 1876, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, August 21. (Before G. L. Lee, Esq., J.P.)

Drunk and Disorderly. —Four inebriates who appeared for the first time were each fined ss. ,

Drunkenness and Indecent Exposure. —•John Jones, charged with being drunk and committing an act of exposure in Cashel street, was fined 20s. Drunk and Using Obscene Language. —William Walsh, who had been arrested on the above charge, was fined 20s.

Illegally on Pkemises. —John Lane, who had been found illegally in Mr J. Lamb's stables, at four o'clock on Sunday morning, was sentenced to forty eight hours' imprisonment. Robert Joyce, who had been found on Sunday morning illegally on the premises of Mr Charles Mazey, Barbados street north, was fined 10s. Attempting to Commit Suicide. —John Marrany was brought up on a charge of this nature. The accused had been seen the previous day by Mr J. S. Monk, of Sumner, to throw up his hands and jump off a jetty into the Heathcote river. Mr Monk ran down to the river, and saw a sailor from the ketch Gipsy pulling him out of the water. Accused seemed to regret having been taken out. Remanded for eight days,

Lajrceny. Edwin Turner was charged with the larceny of an over-coat valued at £7, from the City Hotel, on or about the Ist July, belonging to Mr Cowell, traveller. Mr Thomas appeared for accused. Inspector Feast told the Bench that Mr Cowell had stated that the missing coat had been made for him by Sampson, tailor, of Dunedin, and Mr Sampson's foreman had since recognised it as one made for Mr Cowell in that establishment. The prosecutor was at present in the North Island, and he would ask for a remand for eight days. Mr Thomas submitted that if, in the absence of any evidence being produced to show that the coat had been stolen, his Worship intended to grant a remand, he hoped his client would be admitted to bail. His Worship said the remand asked for would be granted, and accused would be admitted to bail, himself in £IOO and one substantial surety in the same amount.