MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1459, 19 October 1878, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday, October 19. [Before G. L. Hellish, Esq., R.M.] Lunacy. - James Henwood was brought up suffering from the effects of drink, and was remanded to Lyttelton Gaol for a week for medical treatment. Soliciting Alms. Charles Anderson was charged with being a vagrant and soliciting alms, Rosetta Clark, a shopwoman at Mr Mein’s the butcher, said he called there four times yesterday and solicited alms. William Hullam, a shopman in the same employ, said he saw the accused six times the same day ; one time his cloth* s were disarranged, lie asked for money. Mr Watt said lie saw him at his place on the Papanui road on Thursday evening, and he asked him for some money to take him to the shearing np country. Ho was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labor. Larceny. —John Freeman was charged with stealing two bocks, value Is lid, the property of Henry J. Wood. John Lindsay, salesman at Mr Wood’s the stationer, High street, said the prisoner called in the shop on Friday, and purchased a book for 3d. He gave 71-d, and went away without bis change. His attention was drawn to the prisoner as he was leaving, and shortly afterwards he saw him in the street. He had some books in his hand which the witness took from him, and asked him what he was doing with them. Prisoner replied that ho was selling them, and that he had got them in Dunedin. Witness took the books from him. They were the same produced, and he identified one of them by the private mark of the firm inside the cover. Witness met prisoner a second time in the street, and told him ho had instructions from Mr Wood to give him in charge for the theft. Prisoner admitted it, and said that he was drunk. The books he identified as the property of Mr Wood. Prisoner was drunk when he purchased the book, but the second time the witness saw him, he appeared to have recovered a little. The prisoner was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labor. LYTTELTON. Saturday, October 19. [Before W. Donald, Esq., R.M.] Drunkenness. —James Pope, arrested by Constable Creighton on this charge, was fined 20s. Desertion. Arthur Longhottom, an apprentice on board the ship Bride of Lome, was sent to gaol for three weeks on this charge. Civil Cases. —Kerry v Cain, £2; judgment for defendant.