MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1861, 10 February 1880, Page 2

MAGISTRATES’ COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday, Fbbbuaby 10. f Before G. L. Hellish. Esq., 8.M., and G. L. Lee, Esq , J.P.] Drunk and Disobdebly.—A female was fined 40s. , . , Lunacy.—Three cases of lunacy from drum were disposed of in the usual manner, alt being first offenders. . , Tbansbbb O? Liceksb. —The license or theBoyal Hotel, Oxford terrace, from Chi lies Dunaford to John Bavlee. Labceny.—John Kelly was charged with the larceny of a carriage whip and rug, value £2, the property of Francis Innes. The accused pleaded not guilty. Samuel Barker, a carter in the employ of the prosecutor, remembered driving him to the Christchurch railway station on the 21st ult On returning ho put the gig he had been driving into the prosecutor’s shed, with the whip and rug produced in it. The yard in which the shed stood was fenced in with a six foot paling, the gate being fastened but not locked. The following Saturday, the 24th, witness missed the whip and rug. John Edgar deposed that he was a barman at the Southern Hotel, Christchurch. On the morning of the 23rd of January, or there abouts, the accused came to the bar with a rug and a whip, the same produced. Witness asked him where he had raised them, and he said they were his own. Subsequently he said he got them from the Caveisham Hotel, Dunedin. The rug and whip were given to the barmaid of the hotel, in the absence of witness, who detained them in the bar under the impression they were stolen property. Joseph Hannan, a labourer, stated that he knew the prisoner. Saw him in the Southern Hotel about atoitiight ago. He had a whip and a rug, and offered to sell witness the whip for a half-pint of beer. He said he bought the whip at Oaversham, and the rug in Princes street, Dunedin. He wanted 6d for the rug. Witness took the whip and rug oft the floor, and gave them to Miss Phillips, the barmaid of the hotel. The accused got * half a pint of beer for the whip from a man in the bar. Susan Phillips, barmaid at the Southern Hotel, Christchurch, said she remembered seeing the prisoner in the bar on f Friday, the 23 rd ultimo. He had the whip [ and rug produced in his possession. They were given to witness by Joseph Hannan, and she placed them on a cask. Francis Innes, brewer at Waltham, being sworn, identified 1 the whip and rug in Court as his property. He lost them about three weeks ago. They s were worth £2. In his defence, the accused ' said he picked the whip and rug up en the r Ferry road, and intended to give them up to 3 the detectives, but he went into the Southern e Hotel on the way and had some drink, which was the cause of all the trouble. _ The prisoner, who had been previously convicted, e was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.