RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT. Wellington, 26th June, 1847.
Bbfore Henry St. Hill, Esq., R.M. Benjamin Burkett and Richard Smithy, of Wellington, labourers, were charged with having feloniously stolen, taken and carried away, several pieces of meat from the premises of John Brown, Wellington, butcher. John Brown deposed to having, on the evening of the 25th instant, removed several joints of meat from the front part of his shop to the back of the same and shortly after, having served the prisoner Burkett, he missed the joints in question. Prosecuior aent in company with a policeman to Burkett's house and found the several joints which had been stolen, in the bed of Richard Smith, who lived with the prisoner Burkett, and in several parts of Burkett's house. Brown identified the meat by the peculiar mode of cutting. Nicholas Oxenham, a private in the armed police, corroborated the evidence of Brown. The prisoners made no defence, and were committed to the gaol of Wellington for four calendar months and hard labour.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZSCSG18470630.2.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 200, 30 June 1847, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
168RESIDENT MAGISTRATES COURT. Wellington, 26th June, 1847. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 200, 30 June 1847, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in