RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 90, 8 November 1879, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THtFHBi>At, NOTEMBEE 6, 1879. [Before B. Ward, Esq./R.M.] BMBBZZIiBMBNT. Charles Printzen, hotel waiter, -waif sharged upon information, that he did on the 19th- October, IB79,>t,Palmerston North, being then employed m the capacity of servant to James Carroll, of the Clarendon Hotel, receive and take iuntd nis possession for and on account ; of the, said James Carroll, his iriaster, ; the- sum of Two pounds seven* teen shillings m money, and then did thererielpniously and fraudulently embezzle'against the statute m such case made and provided. ■ The. prisoner pleaded "guiljby,-' stating that he intended to have returned the money, which he had spent while under the influence of .drink. - Sentenced to one month's imprisonment with, hard labor m Wanganui Graol. ; . bbeach 07 the Blatjohtebhot7ses act, 1877. „: ..' ";"" "Robert Mackie was informed against by Constable that he didurilawfully commit a breach of the " Slaughterhouses' Act, 1877." by causing to be slaughtered two head of small cattle, to wit, two lambs, the same being intended for sale, m a place not .being duly licensed under the provisions of the aforesaid Act. . The defendant pleaded " not guilty." The case was conducted by Constable Gillespie. ' " ;\ :■'■. •;.; , William Morris deposed:. l. am a slaughterman m the employ of Mr. Mackie. I was not at the old slaughterhouse on the 4th or sth m fact not for .a week. I have not seen any killing done there for a fortnight^ I- did not see two lambs hanging up there, which were afterwards brought to the shop, but Ido not f not know by whom. There were none of them sold,'} J •.. i To Mr. Mackie: The lambs were chopped up for feed for the fowl, and you gave; jne one: quarter. t - . To the Bench: <They were; not exposed !. fo* sale m the Jshop, they were hung there until I- was ready to clipp them, up. The reason they were chopped up, I : presume, wap because some 'of the meat had been bruised. v Constable Gillespie deposed to visit'ing'Mr: MackieV slaughter-house, and finding two lambs freshly killed^ with blood upon the floor; They appeared aSjVEftliey; hadjust been dressed. In the same building was a sheep, which appeared to he roughly dressed^ and somewhat rotten. There weiealso^ several skins lying about. ; , '. i: To Mr. Mackie; sheep appeared to be rotten. I would^nd^liate'iina-' glned^frqm t^hei smell that the shdep had 1 been alive twenty-seven -I- ; saw ' no marks upon the lambs, but I ; did' not- care for examining the sheep too closely as it; smelt so high. At this stage of the proceedings, the Police asked for a remand until the 4th t df : Becember, for thepraduction' of a material witness, which was granted; -