MAGISTERIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6503, 30 December 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

OHRISTOBUROif. TacstDAr, Bio. 29.

(Before O. I, Lee and R. Wntesn, Eiqi) BSO2IXSWMB. A first offender who Led been arretted in Salisbury etreet os the previous night woe fined s*. Wiva-naammoj*.—James Mreham CtO' nell was charged with deeertisf hie wife and leaving her without adequate meant of support. Sergeant ifaeon stated that the man bad only been brought from Blenheim that morning, and the police bad not bad time to communicate with hie wife and collect evidence ) be therefore applied for a remand# The Bench remanded the accused to the following day.

AMBKBLE7. Thcksday, D*c. 29. (Before Caleb Whitefoord, Eeq.. E.M., 1. Courage, A. Broadfoot and T. Douglas. Ee^re.) FemoHATlOS.—Edward Thomae wtt, on the information of Reginald Foster, Returning Officer for the Cheviot Sectoral District, charged whh personation at G-late election. On the application of Mr Fetter, the defend antwae remanded for a fortnight for the !irod action of the voting prj-rre from Weibgton. Bail was accepted is. £25, end one surety of a like amount.

TIM ABU. Teubsdat, Die. 29.

(Before F.le CrcnandH.G.Stcricker,E«qr».) Decks abd Disced belt. —Bichird Fox, charged with this offence, was ordered to pay £1 13», medical expenses incurred for dress* ing a broken head ne received somehow while drank.

LABCBJnr. George Clarke was charged with stealing a silver chain, locket mad brooch, of. the value of £4, the property of Mr* 6mm, from a room in the Tin.am Hotel, cn the previous day, and pleaded not guilty. James Ogilvie stated that between one and two o clock he saw the prisoner come into bis yard and look at a machine, while doing so moving about an old hag that was lying around. Be went away, bnt came bark almost immediately, and witness taw him put his band under the bag in a war that arouaed bis suspicions, and when the man left shy yard again, witness went and found under the *g, the chain, locket and brooch produced. He pointed out the prisoner to a constable, and saw the prisoner ran away. Constable Guerin, to whom the prisoner was pointed out by last witness, elated that he followed him round Shepherd’s corner, and got dose to him, when the prisoner ran off and got dear away from him. About five in the evening be saw him in the Criterion Hotel, and arrested him on a charge of stealing from the Tim>ru Hotel the articles above enumerated. Prisoner sold the emustable first wanted to arrest him for being drunk, and he ran away just to show thsfe he was as sober as the constable himself. Sergeant Cullen, who assisted to arrest the accused, stated that in reply to the charge the prisoner said : “ I think lam guilty of that; I think I did that” Prisoner was under the influence cf chink, and asked several times what was the charge against him. Mrs Melton, licensee of the Timarn Hotel, recognised the article* produced as her daughter’s, Mrs Gann’s. The prisoner was in the bar of the hotel about ten in the morning, and later, between cue and two. On the last occasion he asked if witness could put him in a room as a policeman wanted to take him up for being drank, but he ran out again at once. Mrs Gunn stated that she left the articles on a dressing-table in her bedroom upstairs in the hotel at eight in the morning, and next saw them in the hands of the police, between one and two, when she found they had bees taken away. Inspector Pender said, nothing was known of the pan, except that he had been twice convicted of drunkenness. Ho had been drinking about town for adsy or two past. The Bench considered the charge lolly proved, and sentenced the accused to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.