POLICE COURT.
OHEISTOHUEOH. Wednesday, Fhbbdaby 23, [Before E. Wostenra and P. K. Wright, Esqs., J.P.’e.] Deunkk'Ness. —B. Milner was fined 5s for this Alice Greaves, for being drunk and using obscene language at Coker’s Hotel the previous night, was fined £5, or six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labor, Wm. Smith, fur similar offences at the same time and place as those of the last prisoner, was fined 5s for being drunk, and 20s for the had language. Boy Hodskbbeakbbs. —Nine small boys, the eldest about thirteen, named Samuel Handers, Thomas Duke, E. D. Loach, H. J. Leach, Wm. Manders, John and George Brooker, and Bcnj. and Moses Levoi were charged with breaking into an empty house, the property of Eobort P. Crosby, at Eiccarton, and stealing a knife, brush, scissors, Ac., valued at 10s, therefrom. The case was proved against the boys, as & gang, though tha
parents of some of them urged that their boy# had nothing to do -with the theft. The Bench said if the evidence had fixed the house-breaking on any particular boy, or boys, they would have ordered them to bo whipped. They were then dismissed with a severe reprimand.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2183, 23 February 1881, Page 2
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