MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2301, 18 August 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRIS lOHUHOH. [Before J. Nugent Wood, Esq., R M.] Thursday, August 18. Drunkenness.—For a first offence a min was fined ss. Illegally on Premises.—W. W. Briggs was brought up charged with the above offence.—Miriam Hamilton deposed that about midnight last night she was awakened by hearing a noise at the window of her cottage in St, Asaph street. On looking out she saw the prisoner knocking at the wall. He finally lifted the lower sash of the window ; and, on being asked what he wanted, he said he was the cook.—Sergeant Mason, who lived near the house, was called, and prisoner was arrested. Ho was not drunk, bub had been drinking.—Prisoner pleaded guilty.—He was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labor. Forgery and Uttering.—Fredk. Cooper was charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £3 on the Bank of New Zealand.— Fredk. Lane, called as a witness, was found to be drunk, and ordered to stand outside for a while. —Richard Donovan, assistant to Mr White, bookseller, of Victoria street, deposed that on Saturday, August 6 fa, a person obtained from him a blank cheque on the Bank of New Zealand, which he identified by the number as the one produced.—Jas. McKenna, barman of the Garrick Hotel, deposed that prisoner obtained, on the afternoon of August 6th, from him, pen and ink, and immediately afterwards appeared to be writing something. His beard was longer then. He saw him a week afterwards, when he had shaved most of it off.—McGregor Watt, a storekeeper of Victoria street, stated, that on August 6-h prisoner bought groceries from him of the value of Ss, for which he gave the cheque produced, signed “ Thos. Williams," saying it was the signature of Dr. Williams, of Sydenham. Prisoner endorsed it as “Thomas Hudson." Witness lodged the cheque at his Bank on the Bth, and it was returned marked “ signature unknown." Prisoner then was shaven only on the chin. The man, Fredk. Lane, was with prisoner when he tendered the cheque. Witness paid prisoner £2 12s balance in cash. -Hy. Williams, a medical practitioner, residing at Sydenham, stated there was no other doctor of the same name in Christchurch or suburbs. He knew nothing of the cheque produced. Never saw the prisoner before. — W. T. Twinning, teller of the Bank of New Zealand, Christchurch, identified the cheque as being presented on the Bth inst., and marked as now. No person named Thomas Williams hes an account with the Bank. —Constable O’Connor said he arrested prisoner on August 12th. He stated to him the present charge. He said he knew nothing about it.—Fredk. Lane was again brought in, a id, being sworn, deposed to going with prisoner to Watt and Co.’s store, where he purchased some groceries, for which he paid by a cheque, endorsing it before it was cashed.—This was the whole of the evidence offered, and prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committee to take his trial at the next session of the Supreme Court to be held at Christchurch. Obtaining Goods on False Pretences. —The same prisoner was charged with this offence.—Herbert Peats, salesman at Chienall and Stewart’s, Cookham House, deposed that on August 2nd prisoner, stating that he was the coachman of Mr Olissold, obtained four pairs of ladies’ shoes, valued at £2 8s. —Prisoner pleaded guilty.—He was also charged with obtaining two pairs of ladies’ dancing shoes, value £ 211 s, from Nicholls and Son.— The circumstances were similar to these in the other charge, except that ho produced an order signed “Miss Olissold.” —Prisoner pleaded guilty.—Ha was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor for each offence.