MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1730, 5 September 1879, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Friday, September sth. ["Before G. L. Mellish, Esq., R.M.] Neglected Child. —Sarah Ryan was brought before the Bench as a neglected child. Constable Devitt stated that he found the child yesterday, crying in High street. She told him she had had nothing to eat that day, and she was looking for her mother, and unless she found her she would have no place to sle'p in. She further stated that she had slept the previous night at Mrs Moore’s, in Kilmore street, but she had been turned out, and was told not to come back again. The girl’s father and mother were both drunkards, and quite unfit to have charge of the child, and she had two eldest sisters who were following an infamous calling. The little girl had been staying with a Mr Gosnell for some time, but through the annoyance ha sustained from her mother coming about the place, he was compelled to send her away. The child was sent to the Burnham Industrial School for seven years, to be brought up in the Eoman Catholic faith.

Labcent. William Wood?, remanded from the 2nd instant, was charged with stealing £2O from the person of Frederick Aldridge. Frederick Aldridge stated that he was a farmer, living at La Eon’s Bay. Last Saturday week, the 30th ult., he came to Christchurch, On the Ist of this month he received £SO from Messrs. Acland, Campbell and Co, He received four £lO notes, two £1 notes, a balance of £7 17s 6d, which made up the £SO notes, being paid to Mr Allen on his account. Witness that day met the accused at the City Hotel corner. He asked for the loan of ss, and the witness gave him half a crown. The accused's calling was that of a bushman, but witness did not think he wag fond of work. Witness and accused then went into the City Hotel, and the former shouted. Accused invited witness to his place, and they both got into a cab and drove to Mr Noonan’s house, but he could not say the name of the street. Witness and accused returned to the City Hotel, when they had some more drinks, and witness lent him another ss. Ho told him he had £4O on him, and had to go to Lyttelton, Witness cashed two of the ten pound notes, one at the City, and the other at the White Hart Hotel. He afterwards got the worse for liquor, and was driven away with accused in a cab. On recovery, ho found himself in the house he had gone to before with the accused. Ho wont to sleep and when he came to himself found that there was a £lO note asd the change for another missing out of his pocket. He had spent about a pound. The accused had gone, “made a clean slope of it.” Next time the witness saw accused he was coming out of the oyster saloon next to the Theatre, at about eight o’clock that night. A woman wjs with the accused, and witness was accompanied by Detective Benjamin. Beyond tke sum? already stated witness lent tkc ac-

cueed do more money. By the accused I don't remember where we changed coate, and I never lent you £5 in the house or in the cab.” Accused—The £5 note you lent me turned out to be £lO. Thomas Noonan daposed that ho was a laborer residing in George street. The accused had been stopping with him for the'last ten days. Saw the accused abons the first of the month at the railway looking for work. Accused when ho came to stop with witness about the 23 rd of August aaa no money. He worked for fire hours with witness, tha first week at the Gasworks. _ The five shillings he received for his work ho offered to witness, but he returned to him as ho was hard up. About six o’clock on the daj in question the accused brought the prosecutor to witness’s house in a cab. They had both been drinking, and at the suggestion of accused the prosecutor laid down on a stretcher to sleep. The accused helped to take the prosecutor’s coat and waistcoat off and threw them on witness’s bed. Saw

iooused take the prosecutor into the back kitchen to have a wash, and while there witness saw accused examining prosecutor’s coat, but he dropped it when prosecutor came back. "Witness saw accused take some papers from the prosecutor’s waistcoat pocket, and he counted four £5 notes and one £1 nota on to the table. He then rolled them up, and apparently put them back again. The accused then had some tea, and left to go_ up town again. Prosecutor remained behind, and found that some of his money wra gone. Witness examined prosecutor's waistcoat pocket, and found beneath his watch one £lO note, one £5 note, and four £1 notes. Next time witness saw aoonsed was in Burmerster’s oyster saloon. Charles Burmcrster, oyster saloon keeper, Gloucester street, said that on the evoirngof

the Ist of September the accused came with three other men into his shop and shouted for oysters, and tendered a one pound note fn payment of them, receiving fifteen shillings change. Witness saw accused give his waiter, James Mitchell, three £1 notes to take care of for him. Saw Mitchell afterwards give the notes to Detective Benjamin. Bobert Wallace, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, deposed that on the night of the 24th of August accused asked him for the loan Is 2d to release his swag, and he said ho had no money. Maurice David Barsht, draper, Colombo street, deposed that about seven o’-clock on the evening of the Ist instant, the accused came into his shop and bought atnufller, two silk pocket-handkerchiefs, and a bottle of scent, for which he paid £l.. Ha tendered him a £lO note, on the Union Bank. Not being able to change the note himself, witness gob his neighbor, Mr Yates, to change it for him, and witness gave accused nine £1 notes. Thomas Yates, bootmaker, Colombo street, stated that he remembered changing a £lO the first of the month for the last witness, bat

iid not remember what bank it was on. Detective Benjamin deposed that ho arrested the prisoner about nine o’clock p.m. on th* Lst inst. Searched him, and found one £ note, a half-sovereign, and silver and copper amounting to £3 lie 3d. Explained the charge to the accused, who said he had borrowed the money from his brother-in-law, Michael Hart. On the way to the lockup he retracted this, and said tho prosecutor had lent him a£s note. Ho said it was in the excitement of the moment .that he had stated Michael Hart lent him p the money. He said Aldridge lent him the money in the Borough Hotel, and there was a girl present. Witness made enquiries at tho Borough Hotel, but no one there knew anything of the circumstance. Subsequently witness received £3 in notes from James Mitchell, waiter at Burmeistor’s oyster saloon. This was the whole of the evidence, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court. LYTTELTON. Ebiday, Sbftembbe 5. ["Before J. Beswick, Esq., R.M., T. H. Potts, Esq., J.P., and H. Allwright, Esq., J.P.] Lakceny as a Bailee. —William Brown Reed was presented for having, on the 19th. of June last, committed larceny as a bailee of a watch, the property of Robert Phillips. Remanded until Monday, at the request of the police. Civil Business. —Garforth and Lae r. Moses Barton, claim £2 3s ; plaintiff failed to appear, and the case was passed. Richard Garnett v. William. Hildyard, claim £1 6s for 5/mt: Mr Naldor for defendant; the defendant reruooa — j —«nntending that ho had not rented tho premises but trim. to week, that he had not taken possession of tho place, and had paid plaintiff all that was due. Judgment for defendant, with costs and counsel’s foe.