TE KUITI POLICE COURT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 26, 19 April 1907, Page 3

TE KUITI POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, April i6th, 1907,

(Before Messrs D. H. Lusk and

Tammadge, Js.P.)

George Tall, a man with a record and six aliases, George Boggs, and Joseph Boggs, appeared on remand to answer a charge of theft from the camp of James Morgan, a railway employee, at Kawa. The charges against the Boggs Brothers had been partly heard on April Bth, and the accused had been remanded for eight days for the purpose of procuring further evidence. In the meantime, Tall, who had been at the camp with the accused, was arrested at Mangapeehi, and charged with the offence. The brothers, Boggs, hrd plerded guilty to taking a pair of boots and a packet of tea from the camp, but denied knowledge of a large number of other articles that were missing.

Tall pleaded, not guilty. Evidence was given by James_ Morgan and Percy Horsman as to missing the articles.

Joseph Turner, of Kawa, deposed to seeing the three accused at the camp in question, on the _ Sunday. His son provided them with some bread, tea and sugar, and they made a meal at the tent.

Tom Wright gave corroborative evidence, and James Nelson and Edward Cumpstone identified the accused as having passed along the railway line, on the day in question.. The last mentioned witness also stated that one of the younger men called and asked for boiling water on the Sunday. George Boggs stated, in evidence, that Tall joined him and his brother at Te Awamutu. On the Sunday in question, they were at the camp at Kawa and made a meal there. He did not see Tall go into the tent.

Joseph Boggs gave similar evidence.

Constable Matthews deposed to searching Tail's swag at Mangapeehi. He found none of the missing articles in it. Tall informed him that he had met theßoggs at Te Awamutu. The Bench convicted accused, and sentenced Tall to fourteen days in Mount Eden gaol. In view of the younger men having been already _ a -week in confinement, they were discharged,