MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2564, 27 June 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHRISTOHUBOH. Tuesday, June 27. TBeforo J. Ollirier, Esq ~ R.M.] Drunkenness.—For first offences two men were fined each ss, or, in default, to be imprisoned for twenty.four hours' with hard labor.

Vagrancy.— Alex, Campbell, an old man, charged with having no lawful visible mesne of support, was remanded tor one week, in order that steps might be taken to provide quarters for him at the Ashburton Old Men’s Home, Wiyb Desertion.—Mark Kane, brought up on warrant from Oamaru, was charged with this offienoe. His wife slated that for the last six years he had left her and her family of six childnn without providing for their maintenance. Ha was ordered to pay 10s weekly to his family. Larceny. Geo. BI zley was charged with steeling 10s, the properly of Alfred Gosling. Prosecutor had dropped a haif-a-eoyereign at the railway cn Monday. Prisoner, who was standing by, was seen to piaoe hie foot on it, and afterwards picked it up, When taxed with .t an hour afterwards he denied it, but on being searched the coin, a marked one, was found on him, together with other £-110a in cash. He now admitted the offence. He was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, with hard labor. Busolary. —Wm. Anderson, alias Price, was brought up cn writ of hchtas corpus from Lyttelton Gaol, where he has been undergoing a sentence cf three months’ imprisonment for stealing a hair brush. He was charged with stealing two pairs of boots and two pairs of shoes, valued at £3 XOj, from th® shop of H. Wilkinson, bootmaker. High street, on the night between April 2lat and 32nd. Mr Raphael appeared for the prosecution ; prisoner was undefended. Svidenoo at considerable length was taken, by which it appeared that on April 37th and 29:h thrao men were seen loitering about Riocartonbush. Accused was one ot them. On the night of April 21st the shop of Mr Wilkinson was broken into, and some boots and shoes were stolen, On May 15th Mr Deans, the owner of the Eiccavton estate, while walking in the bush was shot at by a man still unknown, upon whom ho came unawares. The man ran away, leaving on the spot where he stood two parcels, one of which contained a pair of boots and two pairs of shoes, which ware identified as some cf those stolen from Wilkinson’s shop. Subsequently prisoner, who had boon arrested on the charge of stealing a brush, was found to ho wearing a pair of boots which were sworn to positively by Mr Wilkinson’s foreman as having hsen made by him for Mr Wilkinson, This witness, however, could not say when those boots had been last teen in the shop. Prisoner accounted for_ the boots, saying ha had bought them at Timarn a month bsfore, at the shop of a man whose name he had forgotten. The Magistrate said there was no evidence to connect the prisoner with the present charge. His account of his possession of the boots he was wearing was not satisfactory, but it might possibly be true. At any rate he would not feel justified in sending the case to trial. The charge was dismissed. The boots which had been taken from off th® prisoner's feet were ordered to be restored to him. The Magistrate declined to make any any order as to the boots and shoes found at Biccarton.