MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 850, 15 March 1877, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH.

Thursday, March 15. (Before G. L. Lee, Esq, and Dr Deamer, J.P.’s)

Fighting.— James Kean and W. S. Wood, charged with fighting in Tuam street, were each lined 20s.

Drunk and Disorderly, George Trimble, arrested for being drunk, was fined ss. William Whall, for being drunk and committing a breach of the peace in a public place, was fined 20s. George McMahon, charged with drunkenness, being found illegally on the premises of the Press office, at an early hour in the morning, and using abusive language, was fined 10s. LYTTELTON. Thursday, March 15. (Before H. it. Webb, H. Allwright, and J, T. Rouse, Esq, J.IVs.) Drunk and Illegally on Railway Premises — John Wilson, arrested by Constable Johnston, was fined 10s, or in default forty-eight hours’ for drunkenness, and seven days’s imprisonment for being illegally on the railway premises. Drunkenness and Illegally on Premises. —Thos. Jones, also arrested by Constable Johnston, was fined 10s, or in default forty-eight hours’, for drunkenness and sleeping with former prisoner in a tank on railway premises. Larceny.— Frank St. Cyr was charged with stealing some clothes and a carpet bag, the property of W. H. Horner (a jockey in Mr Redwood’s employ). Detective Smith sworn, said he had seen prisoner offering clothes for sale at the Empire Hotel, Loudon street. Prisoner stated the clothes were bis and offered them for sale for ss, stating he had brought them from Dunedin, and

they were made by his wife for hia son. He took the prisoner to the lock-up, having discovered that the clothes had been stolen from the railway platform. W. H. Horner identified the goods in the carpet-bag, part of which prisoner had offered for sale. He had come down by the 10.30 a. in. train from Christchurch on Wednesday, March 14th, in charge of some horses. He brought a a number of clothes Avith him, and left them, in a carpet-bag, on the railway platform ; the bag Avas buckled by straps, not locked. He left it there at 10.30 a.m., and did not see it again till it was shoAA’n to him by Detective Smith. He did not know prisoner, and had given him no authority to take the goods, the Amlue of Avhich was under £5. R. Wakalin, a shopman in the employ of W. Cook, butcher, London street, stated that accused came into the shop with a brown paper parcel, containing a suit of clothes, &c., on Wednesday last. Prisoner said he had brought them from Norway, and Avas A r ery hard up, and would take anything for them. He offered them for 10s, and witness bought them, accused giving the receipt produced. In reply to Dench, witness said he thought the goods must have been stolen because they Avere so cheap. The Bench reprimanded witness for having purchased the clothes, thinking t' em to be stolen. Accused Avas further charged with having stolen goods under the value of £5 from Albert Lyford (jockey). The evidence was of a similar character to that in the former case, Lyford’s clothes having been in Horner’s carpet bag. The Bench sentenced accused to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor on each charge; clothes to be returned to the owners.

Civil Cases. —J. S. Olliver v Anderson, claim £2 18s 3d, judgment by default, costs 9s ; same v T. Kelly, claim £3 18s 3d, judgment by confession for amount claimed, costs os, ordered to pay 10s per week ; Pope v Snooks, claim £lO 6s 9d, judgment by default for amount claimed, costs £1 13a ; Hay v Smith, claim £4 6s 2d, Mr H. N. Nalder for plaintiff, judgment for amount claimed with costs 14s, witnesses’ expenses 15s, solicitor’s fee 21s ; Forbes v Evans, claim £4 17s Bd, judgment by default for amount claimed, costs 9s.