POLICE COURT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2230, 26 May 1881, Page 3

POLICE COURT.

OHEISTOSUECH, Thuesdat, Mat 26, (_Boforo G. L. Lee and J. P. Jameson, Esqrg., J.P.’*.] Dbunkhnnebs. For this offence John Wilson was fined ss. John William Wilson appeared for the twelfth time. He was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and creating a disturbance at the Terminus Hotel Prisoner had his head strapped up, appeared to have lost some blood, and pleaded guilty. He was fined 20s. Cruelly 111-using a Horse. Ohas Fortesoue Brown was charged with the above offence. Q-. Osborn deposed that on the 241 h, at ten o’clock in the morning, he let a pony to prisoner to go to Ricoarton. At 9 p.m. the same day he returned and said he had taken the pony to Sumner; it had taken bad and he had left it on the Ferry road, near the Woolston Hotel. Witness went to

the place and found the pony had been dead some time. There were marks and blood about the flanks and head of the animal, showing that it had been spurred and beaten about the head in a savage manner. Witness exhibited a bridle, which was broken, and had blood stains on it. Mr Acland stated that he saw the prisoner spurring and cruelly beating the horse shortly after ten o’clock in the morning on the Ricoarton road. Prisoner pleaded guilty to having punished the horse severely, but said the horse had, he thought, died from gripes. Thomas, called for the defence, said ho saw the horse fall; witness thought ho died from gripes. The Bench said there had been very brutal ill-treatment to the horse, and sentenced prisoner to two months’ imprisonment with hard labor, without the option of a fine. Larceny. —Moses MaoKny was charged with stealing a linen screen from the outside of A. Williamson’s tobacconist shop window. Prisoner said he picked it up. The Bench thought this possible, and dismissed the charge. Foboeet and Uttebino. —John Scott was brought up on remand from the 20th inst. charged with this offence. He had tendered to Q-. B. Dance, hotel keeper at the head of the bay, Lyttelton, at whose house prisoner put up for a night, a cheque on the Bank of New Zealand, Lyttelton, signed Jas, Escott, for £ls. It was not cashed, and on presentation at the Bank on the 13th inst., it was returned marked “ No account.’’ Prisoner in the meantime had cleared out, leaving behind him a dept of 10s 6d. Prisoner was also charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £6, given on May lOth to Horatio Nelson, of the firm of Nelson, Moato and Co., tea dealers, Christchurch. It was drawn on the Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch, and was signed Arthur Graham. It was cashed by Mr Nelson, who, on presenting it at the bank, found it was valueless, there being no account there in that name. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed on both cases for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court, to bo held at Christohuroh.