MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 711, 29 September 1876, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, September 29. (Refore Hia Worship the Mayor and W. Deamer, Esq., J.P.s.) Drunk and Disorderly.—An inebriate, who appeared for the first time, was fined ss. John Lane was fined 10s and cab-hire, • Drunkenness and Indecency.— John Tetley, arrested for being drunk and committing an act of exposure in High street, was fined 10s. Stealing from a Dwelling.— Frederick Hardy, a respectable-looking young man, was charged with this offence. Accused had been arrested at Tindall’s boarding-house, when two halfcrowns and one shilling were found in his right-hand vest pocket; one shilling and tenpence in one trousers pocket, one shilling in the lining of his hat, and a half sovereign on the bed which on he was lying. The detective asked accused where he got the money, and he said he had borrowed it from a man named Henry. Arrested him for stealing £22 in gold and 7s in silver, and a canvas bag, belonging to A. P. Tutton. Accused said, several times, he hoped that Mr Tutton would forgive him. In cross-, examination, by accused, witness said he did not say that he hoped Mr Tutton would let the matter stand over until he communicated with his friends and paid the money, sooner than have the suspicion rest on him. What he did say was that he hoped Mr Tutton would forgive him, and he would send to his friends and get the money. A. P. Tutton, a new arrival, called, stated that accused had been sleeping in the same room with him, and, in reply to a request, he lent him half a sovereign, on the evening of the 25th instant. Witness took it out of a canvas bag, which was in a portmanteau. The bag contained twentytwo sovereigns and 7s in silver. Accused saw him take the bag out of the portmanteau and replaced it again. On the 27th, witness went to unlock his portmanteau at his .new lodgings, and found the lock had been tampered with. In cross- examination, witness said that he would not swear the money was in the portmanteau when he took it away from the boarding house on Wednesday last. It was the day after he had removed that he went to his portmanteau. The portmanteau was left in the bedroom of the house where he is staying at present. Mrs Tindall gave evidence of accused coming to her house. He said he had arrived by the Albion from Sydney, and that he had no money but expected a draft over. Subsequently he paid her a pound, and had two other pound notes in his hand. On the 25th instant his week again became due, and after she spoke to him, he got 10s from where he had been working, and having borrowed a half sovereign from Mr Tutton he gave her a pound. On the morning of the 26th she saw him run upstairs |to Mr Tutbon’s room, but he only stayed there for a few minut as. Charles 'lui!on called give evidence of having about the 25th instant stamped seven letters for accused, who told him he had no money, but expected a draft from his mother. In reply to accused witness said he (accused) had afterwards told him that he had received a letter containing a draft for £4. Accused then paid him the Is 2d, which witness had expended in postage stamps. The evidence of two women, named Jessie Thompson and Elizabeth Rowe, living in the Hazeldean road, went to show that accused drove to their house in a cab on the night of the 26th instant, about half-past eleven o’clock. He gave a cabman a sovereign to go for a bottle of champagne, and next morning sent for a bottle of brandy, giving the messenger another sovereign. Accused gave these women two sovereigns each, and both of them saw him with several sovereigns in his possession. Mr Bunce, barman at the Prince of Wales Hotel, stated that on Wednesday morning witness went in there, and after having a drink asked him if he could give him notes for gold. Witness could not, but later in the day, when accused called, he gave him two notes for sovereigns, and changed another sovereign for drinks he had. After the evidence of the cabman had been taken, the depositions of the witness were read over to accused, who reserved his defence, and was committed to take his trial at the next criminal session of the Supreme Court.