POLICE COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2224, 13 April 1881, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, Aphid 14. [Before M. Maakell, J. E. Parker, and O. L. Lao, E.-qs , J.P.’a.] Dbunkbnnbss —Mary Gough was sent to prison for seven days for being drunk and disorderly. For a first offence a man was fined 5». Labcbkibs.—Thou- Lambert, charged with stealing a purse and 21s from Mary Lambert, was, on the application of the police, remanded till Thursdoy. John Hicks, alias Crawley, alias Hicks, was brought up on remand from the previous day charged with Stealing a hat from B. Houlihan. Prosecutor deposed to leaving the hat on a table in the Roman Catholic Church on January 20th. After service ho missed the hat, and did not again see it until it was brought to him by the police. Peter MoKeohney stated that ho saw prisoner in the church on the night in question near a table where there were hats. Constable O’Connor deposed to finding the hat with prisoner, who had applied at the police depot fur relief. Prisoner said that bo bad picked it up from the gutter in Tuam street. Prisoner now made the same statement. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for one week with hard labor.

Fighting. Henry Woolridge pleaded guilty to fighting in tho street on tho previous night, but said ho had been greatly provokea. He was fined si. Fobobby. —George Saddler, brought up on remand, was charged with the above offence. It appeared from the evidence that a gentleman of tho same name as prisoner took out a letter of credit at a town in Devonshire, drawn by the National Provincial Bank of England on the Bank of New South Wales, Christchurch. As is customary, the letter was in triplicate, of which the duplicate was forwarded by mail to his address at Christchuroh. The mail would arrive in Christchurch in October last. Mr Saddler did not reach Christchurch fill early in December. Ho then applied for letters at the PostOffice, but did not receive the letter containing the duplicate. He afterwards went to the Bank, presented his original, but found that its duplicate had been presented and cashed. The clerk who cashed the letter of credit deposed that prisoner was the man who presented the order, received the money, and signed the endorsement on the back, which constitutes the charge against prisoner. Constable McGill, who followed prisoner to Sydney, who had been arrested there, and brought him back to Christchurch, deposed to prisoner having confessed to getting tho letter containing the duplicate from the Post Office, and the money from tho bank. There was no evidence led to show how prisoner had received the letter, or how his operations had been traced. He was committed for trial at the nest sessions of the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed, prisoner in £3OO, and two sureties of £l5O each.