RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 390, 2 July 1866, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

(Before John Curling, Esq., E M.) Thursday, 28th Juke, bobbery. Stephen Clune, a private soldier in H.M.’b 12fch Regiment, was charged with having early on the morning of the 27th ult., broken into the Albion Hotel, and stolen therefrom a work box containing £25- Miss Williams, the landlady’s sister, awoke at 6 a m. on the day in question, and saw the prisoner partly inside the window. She immediately alarmed Mr Campbell, who, on looting out of his window, saw the prisoner running across the road in front of the hotel. Two men who happened to bo in the house at the time ran after and caught him. He admitted, when he was caught, that he had stolen the work box, and told his captors that they would find it under the verandah of the hotel, where afterwards they did find it; The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court in August next, Friday, 29th Junh. DRUNKENNESS. Thomas Breen was fined 5s for being drunk. ■ Fine paid. Hugh Connor, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined £l. A SUPPOSED LUNATIC. Henry Copely, a discharged soldier of the 65th Regiment, was brought up charged with drunkenness, but it being suspected that he was a lunatic, he was remanded for examination. A CHIMNEY ON EIRE. John Wood was charged with a breach of the Police Act in allowing his chimney to be on fire. Fined 10s and costs.