POLICE COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2208, 24 March 1881, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday, Maboh 24. [Before P. Cunningham and J. Orosbie, Esq*., J.P’s.] Dbubkbnnbsb.—David Anderson, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 20s, and cab hire Is, or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. Labcbht. —William John Simmons, alias William Parker, charged with stealing a purse and £4, the property of Donald McFarlane, and with vagrancy, was, on application of the police, remanded for twenty-four hours. Petty Theft. —R. B. Hardic, Augustus Clement, John Hannan, and William Wood, boys ranging in age from eight to twelve years, were brought up on remand from the 17th inst., charged with stealing three bottles of lemonade from the shop of Thomas Poole on the 22nd inst. Clements admitted the < ffenoe, Mrs Poole proved that the boys went into the shop and bought a bottle of ginger beer. She left the shop for a minute to got a corkscrew. After the boys had left she missed three bottles of lemonade. Mr Poole deposed to having been present when Clements was arrested. That boy then confessed to the theft, saying that the others helped to drink the lemonade, and threw the empty bottles in the river. _ The police stated that Harris had been convicted several times before. The boys were discharged on the parents undertaking to suitably punish them. Assault. —John Miller, against whom there had been issued a summons for assaulting bis wife, did not appear, and a warrant was ordered to be issued, for his arrest.