RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. GREYMOUTH.

Grey River Argus, Issue 97, 25 August 1866, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. GREYMOUTH.

Thursday, Ajtgust 23. (Before W! H. Revell, Esq., R.M.) ! Larceny. — C. W. H. Chilcott was chargedon the information of Phillips Cullman with having stolen a number of articles, bi« property,, including a wafch, ring, candlestick, table-cloth, -&c. It appeared, however, from the evidence that the charge had arisen out of aquarrel, respecting a woman with whom the informant had been cohabiting, but who* had /skedaddled-"" with the accused, taking with her the articles enumerated, and which she claimed as her. own- property, brought over by herself ■ from Melbourne, She had previously lived with the accus~ed. The' Magistrate dismissed 'the information, ' , ..' Friday, August 24, Card ; Sharping; — John Buckley was bronght up, charged under the Imperial VagJ rant Act with card 'sharping and vagrancy,* It appeared-that the" prisoner., who has un-i dergone-several previous convictions, was in) the habit of freciueriting hotels, and victim! ising^ diggers and others at\eards. lii the preseritj instance he had swindled a drunken man of £\(il at the^ Otago Hptet He was convicted, and ordered, to find two sureties foi\£2s each, and himself in £50, to be of good behaviour for six- months, in de» I •fault to be sent to goalfor three inoliths. "