MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2615, 24 August 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHEIBIOHUBOH. [Before, J. Ollivier, B M.] Thursday, August 24. Drunkenness. —John MoLelland for being druuk and indecent exposure was fined £2 ss, and Charles Doyle for being druuk while in charge of a horse and resisting the police was fined £2, both with the usual terms of imprisonment in default. Petty Larceny. —Wm, Meson and Oh&s. Tzett, two boys aged about eight and seven years respectively, were charged with stealing two bottles of ginger beer, valued at Is, the property cf Julia Bobertson. Mr Joyce appeared for the parents of the children. He said that the boys pleaded guilty. They were too young to know the gravity of their offence. They were of highly respectable parents, and must have been led away by bad companions j he asked that they might be handed over to their parents, who would undertake to whip them soundly. The magistrate agreed to this and after giving them a severe caution, the boys were discharged. Disorderly House. —Margaret Thomson was charged with keeping a house the report of thieves and prostitutes. After hearing evidence, the charge was altered to that of having no lawful means of support, and she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labor.

Stealing Lead. —Augustus Clements, a boy about thirteen years of age, was charged with stealing lewt. of lead, the property of some person unknown. Sergeant Mason stated that the prisoner had been found with a cart containing the lead, There were other boys concerned in the transaction, and he asked for a remand. Prisoner was remanded till August 26th. Boebkbt f stoic the Phbboh. Matilda Hansen was charged with the above offence. Mr Joyce appeared for the prisoner. Thos. McGuire, a laborer, residing at the Hallway boardinghouse, deposed that he met accused on Tuesday at a house kept by Mrs Thompson in Madras street, Sydenham. He remained there all night, and next morning he went with accused to a house and gave her some money to get a bottle of brandy. That was brought and consumed, and in the afternoon he took out his purse to give her some more money for the purchase of drink. She snatched the purse and went away with it; it contained one £5 note, one £1 note, and half a sovereign. Ho had not since seen her or the money until she was in the hands of the police. He wc« very drunk, and might have i;one with prisoner to some other house. Prisoner had told him that her husband was in Ban Francisco, but after she had gone away with the money, a man representing himself to be her husband came in and told him to clear out, which he did. In crossexamination, ho stated that the receipt which had been found in prisoner’s house was bis property. He was so drunk that his ideas were confused, with the exception of his recollection of the snatching of _ the purse, Margaret Thompson, who had just before been sentenced to three months’ for vagrancy, was called by the police. She stated that prosecutor and prisoner loft her house together at about 12 30 on Tuesday. Witness saw them shortly afterwards in prisoner’s house, where she, prisoner, prosecutor, another man and another woman, were drinking till four o’clock, when prisoner and the man disappeared. While in her own house witness had seen the purse produced and a £6 note in the possession of prosecutor. Paulina Anstainocn deposed that, being in prisoner’s house, she saw prosecutor, who was drunk, lying in a bed, take a £5 note out of his pocket-book and threw it on the floor. Witness picked it up and rep'seed it in the pocket-book, which she put in prosecutor's pocket. Witness left the room. Prisoner went in, but came out and told witness that prosecutor said ho had lost a £5 note. Witness and prisoner went in to the man, and they found the £5 note in the bed, and restored it to him a second time. Prisoner then left the house, and Mrs Thompson was alone with prosecutor after she went out. F, H. Bowler, of the Waltham Hotel, deposed that on Tuesday evening prisoner had changed a £5 note in tl.a". house. Sergeant Brooks deposed to arresting prisoner. He had previously been to her house with prosecutor, and in her absence found in her bedroom a piece of paper, which prosecutor claimed as bis own. After search the female searcher produced the purse now exhibited, which had been found on her. Katherine Welsh,female searcher, deposed to finding the purse produced in one of prisoner’s stockings before the stocking was removed. This was the esse for the prosecution, Mr Joyce laid that the purse had been picked up by one of prisoner’s children. There was no evidence of her having had anything to do with the money. It was proved that prosecutor had been flinging his money abont, and it was quite possible it might now be lying somewhere whore he had been. The prisoner had fallen into bad courses, but she certainly was not proved to be a thief. The prisoner was committed to take her trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court to bo held at Christchurch. Bail was allowed, her husband in £IOO, and two other sureties in £SO each. Civil Oases. —Latimer v Hibbert, claim £2 17a for wages ; judgment for plaintiff with costs. Judgments were for plaintiffs by default in Mason, Struthera and Co. v Wallaco, £9 18§ 7d ; Popprill and Co. v Orchard, £4 6j j Hargreaves v McLean, £ll6l lOd, and Marsh v Bllingford, £3 16s. Hargreaves v J'ohnston was adjourned till August 28th ; Wright v Lynch till August 31st.