RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 81, 20 July 1878, Page 3

RESIDENT MA GISTRATE'S COURT.

: Fcp:TOJsr. Wednesday^ July 17t.it,. 1878. (Before B. WAbd, Esq., RM.j Pureell v. Brown. This was an information laid by- informant against defendant for illegally rescuing two cows which* wece being 1 taken, to the pound. x . ■ It appeared- that on the- morning of the 16th, two horses belonging to defendant were driven or had! escaped from his paddock, and had found their way into Mr LidcFeH's garden, who destained them unfit he could communicate ■with Constable Purcell, who has charge of the public pound. -The Constable : adyisedVMrLiddell to give a "written notice, and impound the animals. Mr Liddell accordingly sent one of his sonsWdththe fiarses, Constnble -Purcelf olso sending one of bis boys to help. Mr -Harry Brown, ha ring released the* same ihofses from durance vile the evening before, seeing them on their 1 way back, vgofc angry, and took then from the boys "who were riding them, hence the action. ' The constable was subjected to severe cross-examination by Dr. Buller, who defended Brown. Answers were elicited ■which showed that the whole action taken both by the- constable and Mr Liddell was m contravention to the Imjpoundinff Act. ; . - . The Magistrate, m giving his do- ' pision,. remarked that the detention of the horses by Mr- Lidded was illegal, as was also the action taken by Qon- \ stable ; Burceli. Tliere was no proof of. rescue within the meaning of the Act, ' therefore the case would be dismissed. A. S. Easton v. John Barry. Claim/£5. It appeared that the de"feridaht shot a boar belonging to cpra-. plainant which was trespassing m his (defendant's)' gardenj and according to ■^ompjaihant'B statement, "Grassed about Klm^r a big white boar with a head tra^Plmld weigh a- hundred- weight."' Complatnant found his way to defendant's pickle tnb,,and picked out the .forelegs of a white pig, which he recognised as his property from the "corns" which graced the hocks. Defendant killing a boar, but denied any knowltedge as to bwnershipi -.'.'•'' ; ■'-. : . Judgment for amount and costs. • Crowther v. W. Byers . Claim, £4; 10s 2d, Judgment summons. No appearance. A*djbuTßed- to next Court day. . s Sanie v.W. Moore. Judgment summons fop- £2> 6fc 9d Summons to be re-issued. ; AKPIiICATION- FOE PROTECTION OEDE». Mrs Charlotte Taylor— who applied, for a protection order against her husband last Court day-^renewed Jier application. Gf der granted, her husband to contribute 5s per weelfc for- each, of her three children.. , <- -"/""^ LAHCENY. r . David Wylie was charged witli stealing a revolver ralae £5, toe property of If. Pi List.. • Prisoner, wlio was undefended^ pleaded not guilty. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, who ' Was second mate of' the Hyderabad, was staying at Westwood's Temperance Hotel, 'Foxton; m company with an apprentice- named Arthur Aldridge, who had charge of a revolver belonging to the chief officer The prisoner advised Aldridge to remove it from his belt and plwe it beneath a pillow for safety, which Aldriclge accoi'dinirly did", and accompanied prisoner to the wharf where the' Jane Douglns was lyine-, and' on- the point of sailing for Wellington. The--prisoner left Aldridge on the wharf and returned to Westwood's, went upstairs and into the room yhere. the pis-, iol w»oeiled. After the Jace

Douglas had sailed, AldriJge returned to his room, when ho immediately missed the revolver, and as he had heard that Wylie had been into the room after they had left for the wharf, he immediately suspected him of stealing it. The Wellington police were communicated with, re&ulting m Wylie's apprehension by Constable Smart, to whom prisoner handed over the revolver. In eonsecfuence of this, and also the uncertainty as to whether a warrant had been, issued, prisoner was let go, but was re-arrested the same night on board the Tui, en route for Lyttelton, brought before the R.M. at Wellington, who remanded him toFbxton, where he arrived per coach on Wednesday afternoon. Mr Ward, who heard the case .the "same evening, was unwilling to believe that the prisoner's only motive m taking the pistol- was to anrnsQ himself on the passage down by shooting gulls, and return it to its owner m Wellington, but considered that a compulsory residence m Wanganui Gaol for three months, with hards' labor, would just meet his case.