POLICE COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2225, 14 April 1881, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

CHRISTOHURCH. TmrH3DAT, APBIIi 14. [Before J. D. Macpherson and R. Walton, Esqs., J.P.'a.J Dbukkbnnbsm.—Jules Seille was charged with drunkenness, wilful destruction of property, and resisting the police. Prisoner is a creditor of one Antonio Salvigny, boardinghouse keeper, who has lately become insolvent. Prisoner got drunk and went to Salvigny's house on Wednesday afternoon, where ho wanted to remove certain goods, which ho said belonged to him. On being prevented ho smashed a teapot. When the police, who had been sent for, attempted to remove hiir, he attacked them and behaved very violently. Defendant said he had lent the things he had attempted to recovor, and was much irritated by the treatment he had received. He was fined 31s in all. W. T. Stoup, who had been to Lyttelton for medical treatment, beiDg cured, was now brought up and discharged. Win. Perry, who aggravated his offence by fighting, was fined 10s. Robert Porch was fined ss. Laecbnies.—Christlieb Schultz aud Thomas Lambert were charged with stealing from Lucy Simpson a purse, 21s, and a handkerchief. John Simpson, a coloured man, deposed that, while sitting with his wife on last Monday night, April 11th, at half-past eleven o'clock, in his own house, a two-rooinod cottage in Kilcuora street, prisoners came in uninvited. Witness knew Lambert but not the other. Witness requested them to leave, bat they refused. Witness then went into another room, and, while absent, his wife called out that she was robbed ; he ran out and found the men were running a»ay. He followed but did not overtake them. Lucy Simpson, wife of previous witness, corroborated his statement, adding that while her husband was in the other room tfchultz hauled her outside the door and took certain

liberties with her ; he failed, however, in his design, and thrusting his hand into her pocket took out her purse and lan away. She then, but not before, called out that she was robbed. Her huaband came out, but the men were gone. She did not call out before, because she was afraid of her husband beating the man, and when she found her purao gone she could not stand it any longer. She struck tho man who assaulted her twice in the face, and pulled his beard. She recognised him in tho street before he was arrested. . Lambert was present, but did not interfere with witness in any way. Prisoner Sohultz denied any knowledge of Lambert or the Simpsons. Lambert admitted having been at the house on the night named, but it was with a man named Alexander Ward, not Schul'z, whom he had never seen before confronted with him by the police. He and Ward went to the house, he described as a brothel. The woman ordered Simpson out of tho house, but Simpson did not go. Prisoner went out to get some beer, and on returning found the woman Simpson in the street j her dress was disordered, and she called out that the man ho had brought to the house had assaulted and robbed her. Prisoner then went away alono. Next morning he met Ward in tho street, and notiiod that his face was scratched. He had not seen Ward since. SimpsOD, recalled, sworo positively that Schultz wus the man who was at the house. Tho prisoner Lambert crossexamined the witness closely at considerable length. The police, in answer to the Bench, said the house was of doubtful repute, Lambert was a well-known thief, who had just served four yea s in gaol. Sohultz had been up several times for drunkenness. The Bench said the ovidence of the woman was not satisfactory for tho prosecution, and dismissed the case.

Fobgeby and Uttebing.—J. L. Miller was charged with this offence. S. Freeman, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, Caledonian road, said prisoner, who had come from Chertsey, and was stopping at the hotel, tendered him a cheque on the Colonial Bank, Christohurch, for £5, purporting to be signed by Roskruge Bros. He cashed the cheque. This was on March 20th ; on the 30th he found at the Bank that tho cheque was valueless, there being no acoount there in that name. He found also on examination that the cheque had been torn from his own cheque book. In answer to Superintendent Broham, who conducted the caso, witness suid he always left his cheque book in an unlocked drawer in the commercial room of the hotel. Edward Roskruge deposed he was a member of the firm of Roskruge Bros., Chertsey. Prisoner had been harvesting for the firm. The cheque produced had not been given by him as representative of the firm. The firm had no acoount at the Colonial Bank. Constable Cartmill, stationed at Malvern, stated that prisoner gave himself up to him as having forged and uttered a cheque. Prisoner was committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supremo Court. Bail was not mentioned. A charge against the prisoner of obtaining goods on false protences was withdrawn.

Pbotbotion Obdeb.—Sarah Hartnall obtained an order protecting her earnings against her husband, Walter "Hartnall, on the ground of his cruelty and habitual drunkenness. She was allowed tho custody of her four children, and waived any claim on him for their maintenance, on consideration of his not molesting her. The Bench reluctantly agreed to permit this, but would rather have made an order touching the man's purse.