RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5374, 18 June 1878, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Monday, June 17. (Before J. 0. Crawford, Esq., E.M.) DRUNKENNESS. One inebriate was dismissed with a caution, it being his first offence. LARCENY OF A CHEQUE. The two boys named Duffy, charged with stealing a cheque, were brought up on remand, and, on the application of Inspector Atchesan, were further remanded until Thursday next, bail being enlarged until that date. FELONIOUS ENTRY. John Smith was brought up on remand, charged with feloniously entering the dwellinghouse of Miss Greenwood, situate on 'Welling-ton-terrace. In reply to his Worship, prisoner said he did not wish to have the evidence previously given read over to him. The usual caution was then administered, and prisoner stated he could prove an alibi. John Martin, for the defence, deposed : My father keeps a boarding-house in Willia-slreet. The prisoner came in between 10 and 11 o'clock on the Sunday night in question. He spoke to my mother at the doorstep, and she gave him some lucifera to go upstairs and light the gas with. Prisoner went up to bed. I sat in the dining-room a little while, closed the house, and then took a candle and put all the gaslights out. Seeing everything secure, I went to bed. That was near 12 o’clock. I took a book, and was reading for some time. I blew the candle out close upon one o’clock. I did not hear any footsteps in the house whatever before I went to sleep. I up at half-past six o’clock next morning, waiting 'at table. Prisoner did not come down till between eight and nine o’clock. He walked straight out. By Sergeant Smith : Prisoner was perfectly sober on the Sunday night when I saw him come in. I saw him that night in bed, undressed. Prisoner could not have got out without my hearing him. There was an elderly gentleman sleeping in the same bedroom. There was only one door to the bedroom. The windows are pretty high from the ground, and he could not go out that way without falling to the ground and hurting himself. Prisoner was two nights at our house. I never saw him intoxicated. There is a back door, front door, and side door. The front door is always secured, the back room always open, and the side door was locked and the key in my room. Prisoner could not have gone out by the back with his boots off without my hearing him. A stranger would be bound to stumble over timber or lumber that is always lying in the passage, Prisoner replied that he had no other witnesses to call. His Worship said this was a case which he must send to a jury to decide. Prisoner would be committed to take his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court. TRAVERS V. MACDONALD. With regard to this case, which is brought for an alleged breach of the Daw Practitioners Act, Mr. Travers said it was not until half-past 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon that the summons was served on Mr. Macdonald. Mr. Macdonald was desirous of having the case adjourned for a few days, and he (Mr. Travers) had not the slightest objection. The case was adjourned for » week. CIVIL OASES. Johnstou v. McLeod; £l4 17s.—Judgment for £lO 7s. and costs (£2 2a.) R, Mirbach v. G. Atkinson ; £2 ss.—Judgment for amount claimed and costs.