MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 826, 14 February 1877, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday,' February 14. (Before G, L, Mellisb, Esq, R.M.) Drunk and Disorderly. —Three inebriates who appeared for the first time were each lined os. Margaret Ellison was fined 20s. Mary Maule, an old offender, was fined 20s, and cautioned that the next time time she appeared in Court she would receive a long term of imprisonment. W. Stacey was fined ss. Stealing from a Dwelling. Annie Bennings, a young girl about fifteen years of age, was brought up charged with stealing a pair of earrings from a house of ill-fame in Rhillipstown. Detective Walker deposed to searching the girl’s mother’s house in Barbadoes street. When spoken to about the earrings accused took them out of her pocket and said they and a strip of velvet were given to her by a girl named Annie Breeze. Barah Schmidt, keeper of the house, stated that she missed a pair of earrings from off a toilet table in a room in which a girl named Annie Breeze slept. Accused was running about the house on Sunday, and the earrings were gone on Monday. Met the girl in High street on Monday afternoon wearing the earrings. They were whole when taken, but were broken now. Believed they were her property, and valued them at 30s. Annie Breeze called said she gave accused a strip of velvet, but did not give her the earrings. In reply to his Worship, the little girl said the earrings had been given to her by Annie Breeze on Sunday morning, along with a strip of velvet. His W orship called the mother of the girl, who corrorated her statement. She had sent her daughter down to this house for some money for a child she was minding, and when she returned showed the earrings, and said they had been given to her by Breeze. After administering the mother a very severe lecture for thinking of sending her daughter to such a house, his Worship said he would give the girl the the doubt, aud di -'missed the case*