RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 166, 16 July 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

I. J : ■ [Before ,__. : Bboa_>, Esq.. <8.-€1 '" Hounsell v. Deveitport.— Action fco recover . £21 13s 6d, balance of account due for liquor supplied. Mr Pitt appeared, for the glaintiff, for whom judgment was given” for amount claimed and costs. [Before A .Greenexelp and H. C. DA_a_u_, Esqs., J.J.P.] Larceny. John M.ehatv Was 'charged : wi.h sfcealih^ '"s£, pair of tweed trousers and a vesfc of the* value of <-.2_£6d, the property of T. S. Wymond; alsojvith .stealing.fcwQ.table.covera. of. the value of 26s 6d, the ;properfcv of Mr Gourlay. -Prisoner; pleaded nofc guilfcy. to both charges. *"'"". "£ . ! \ - ' '■ The latter case was proceeded with firs., Mr Gourlay stating fchafc on Friday) 'riighfc prisoner! was in his shop enquiring for some beads, and on the next morning he missed the two table covers produced, which he did nofc see again until they were shown tp him' by fche police on. Saturday, nigh.. j'-y Peter Levy : On Saturday evening;!, saw prisoner, among fche boxes at Wyjnpn'd'a When he^sajv me he doubled backi, biit I wenfc. after him and caught him, and inside hi3 coat I felt a bundle which I took' out and found to be a pair of trousers and a vest. -I asked where he got them, aud what his name was. He would not answer. I fc^en arrested him. From information I received I-weafc to the Steamboat Tavern, where I was shown a* bag belonging to the prisoner, containing fche table covers produced. ' ' ' Charles MyLeah, landlord of fche Steamboafc Tavern, stated that prisoner left; fche bag produced with him on Thursday, nigh... He returned about nine o'clockoh Friday night, I ddh'fc know whether he went' fco fche bag, bufc he could do so without my knowledge. ; Prisoner, on being asked whether he had Anything to say, replied fchafc he brought the table coyers from Melbourne with him. _>• The Bench considering the case fully proved sentenced' fche prisoner, to three months' imprisonment. Tfie other case was then, proceeded wii;h. Constable Levy gave similar evidence to that in the former case. ' "." ; : V 1 i Edward Ward stated that oh Saturday night he missed a vest and a pair of trowsers similar to those produced from Wym.i-d's shop. ; Prisoner was sentenced ;tp three months' imprisonmenfc.