MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2709, 13 December 1882, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday, December 13. [Before C. Whitefoord, Esq.,R.M., and Major Bamfield, J.P.] Drunkenness. —Elizabeth Gleeson, who had been several times convicted in the past few months, was sent to gaol for seven days. Daniel Burke was fined £l, or forty-eight hours imprisonment. Wm. Ogier. who had been fined on the previous day, was charged with being drunk, using obscene language, and with resisting Constable Bird who arrested him. Mr Joyce appeared for him and, admitting the charges, made an appeal for leniency, on the ground of the prisoner’s former respectability, and on account of his wife and children. The Magistrate pointed out that he had been convicted four times in this year. He was ordered to find bail in his own recognizance of .£25 to be on good behaviour for one month, and his conduct would be strictly watched. In the meantime the judgment would be postponed. If he reformed, and became a Good Templar, ho would be lightly dealt with ; but otherwise he would receive the severest possible punishment. Wm. Gallagher, known as “ the Manchester street loafer,” who had only just been released from gaol, where he had served a term for vagrancy, was fined £l, or in default forty-eight hours imprisonment. For first offences two men were fined ss. Illegally on Premises. —Charles Russell, found sleeping in a shed at the back of the Immigration Office, was discharged with a caution.

Larceny. —John Edward Taylor was charged as above. Walter Kitson, Inspector of Surveys, deposed that on Tuesday he hung up his coat behind his office door. It contained a purse containing £2 or .£3 in notes, a cheque book, and a pair of spectacles. That was about 2 p.m. Ho saw the prisoner, who asked at the counter for Mr Baker, at about 3 p.m. The coat was within prisoner’s reach, but witness had his back turned to him and did not see what he did while he was in the office. About twenty minutes after prisoner had left witness missed the coat. There had not been any person near the coat after the prisoner wmxt away. The value of the whole of the articles was about £5 10s. Detective O’Connor deposed to arresting prisoner, who, when searched, had on him a £1 note and some of the articles identified by the prosecutor. Prisoner here pleaded guilty. A long list of convictions against him was produced, and, as he elected to be dealt summarily with, he was sentenced to he imprisoned for six months and to he kept at hard labour. Civil Cases. —Parker v Murphy, claim .£9 15s 9d, for commission on collections of rent, &e. Mr Gresson appeared for plaintiff. Judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed, with solicitor’s fee and costs of Court. Immediate execution was granted. Judgments went for plaintiffs by default in Mason, Struthers and Co. v Miller, £l2 15s Id; and same v same, £2 19s 3d. Lever v Crotty was adjourned till December 14th.