RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5296, 16 March 1878, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Friday, March 15. Eliza Kenny, an old offender, was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and with damaging a utensil in the lock-up. There was a further charge against her of vagrancy. Sergeant Smith proved the case, and also several previous convictions against the accused, who on the first two offences wa-s ordered to pay 155., or in default suffer forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. For the vagrancy the Bench also sentenced her to a month’s imprisonment. LARCENY. William Jenkins was charged, on remand, with stealing £27 from Thomas Munro, at the house of Mrs. Mason, in Molesworth-street. Mr. Buckley defended the accused. The prosecutor said he recently came to town with £27 in his pocket, and went to a house In Molesworth-street, where he remained for some hours, and went to sleep there. On awakening he discovered that he had been robbed of his money. Edward Dodd said he was with prosecutor on the night of the 11th March, at the house of Mrs. Mason. He did not see prisoner there, but after the robbery was committed, a man, who gave his name as “ Bill Jenkins,” pulled out an empty purse, which he threw over a fence. Mi - . Buckley said he should be able to prove that his client was not near Mrs. Mason’s house on the night in question. The accused was discharged. VAGRANCY. Elizabeth Foster and Mary Ann Mason were charged with keeping a disorderly house. Sergeant Smith described both the women as notorious bad characters. Mrs. Maron was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and Mrs. Foster to three months.