RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5380, 25 June 1878, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Monday, Jjne 24. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., KM.) STABBING. Patrick Conroy was brought before his Woi ship. Sergeant Smith stated that the prisone had used a knife on a man named Ritchie o: Saturday night; but the witnesses could no be got for this morning, and he had therefor to apply for a remand until next day. His Worship granted the application. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. Cecil Nash was charged with being illegal!; on the premises of John Gormley. Two wit nesses deposed that the door being open, th prisoner had walked in, and was found there Prisoner said that the words " Otago Dining rooms"' being over the door, he simply walkec in to see if he could get a night's lodging. His Worship said he would give prisone the benefit of the doubt, and would dismis him with a caution. Prisoner : Thank your Worship. STEALING FROM A DWELLING, Thomas Campbell was charged with stealing several articles from a dwelling-house ii Courienay - place, occupied by Mary Anr Grimsey, a half-caste. Mr. Gordon Allan appeared for the prisoner Mary Ann Grimsey deposed : I am a single ■woman, living at the Maori pa. I have c cottage there. I know a native girl called Harriett. She is stopping with me. I remember last Monday. I left my house at 11.30 a.m. I left Harriett there, and I gave her the keys of the house. My house contains two rooms upstairs and four downstairs. When I went out on Monday I fastened the passage door leading from the back to the front of the house. Everything was safe when I went away at half-past eleven. I returned at halfpast four. When I came home I could not get in. I afterwards went inside with the girl. The middle door was not in the same state as when I left it. The lock was broken. I went into the bedroom. I missed one pair of greenstone earrings, one pair of gold earrings, a silver watch aud plain braid guard with a greenstone cross attached. The watch has been cleaned and repaired at Rowlands'. I also missed two £1 notes, half a sovereign, and 3s. 6d. in silver. AD these things were in the bedroom when I left the house in the morning. Hariata (a Maori girl) deposed that she was i single woman. Knew the prisoner. She lived with Mary Grimsey. Remembered last Monday morning Mary going outside aud giving her the kitchen key. She went away directly afterwards to Martin's, the Albion Hotel, and then went to Emeny's with Taylor. Met the prisoner on the road. He invited them to the public-house, and " shouted" for three of them. He spoke to witness in English about Mary Grimsey. He said to her, "Do you know Mary ¥' Witness said " Yes." Prisoner said, " I gave Mary £5 ; she is my

i sweetheart." Witness told prisoner she had Mary's key, after he asked for it. He said he wished to see Mary, as he was going to Auckland. She gave him the ke;. He went away,and witness went to the pa. Was in Taylor's house when Mary came home. Accompanied Mary back to her house. Had not visited the house since leaving it in the morning. When they got back to the house the kitchen door wa3 locked, and the lock of the passage door broken. Mary complained of missing several things. Witness went down to the police station and described the man to whom she had given the key. Mr Allan produced a brother of the prisoner's, and the witness, in cross-examination, deposed : I saw Francis Campbell at the railway station on Saturday last. I had a conversation with him. I did not • say to him that if his brother gave me £2 I would bring back the watch. He said that Mary was the prisoner's woman. Nothing was said about the watch. Thomas Smith, a boatbuilder and joiner (working in premises at the rear of Mary Grimsey's house), deposed that on Monday last he saw the prisoner go into Mary Grimsey's house twice. Arthur Brown, an undertaker (whose workshop is at the rear of Mary Grimsey's house), deposed that he saw prisoneron Mary Grimsey's premises on Monday last. Christopher Kowlands, a watchmaker in business in Willis-street some months ago, deposed that on Monday evening last the prisoner pulled out a Geneva hunting silver watch, and asked him what ho thought it was worth. He said it was worth about £3. Had repaired a watch of the same description fur Mary Grimsey on two occasions. By Mr. Allan : Never saw the prisoner before. Was certain the prisoner was the man who showed .him the watch. Prisoner reserved his defence, and was comj mitted for trial at the Supreme Court. I WANDEKING AT LABGE. Thomas Smith, for allowing his horse to wander at large, was dismissed with a caution. THREATENING LANGUAGE. William House, for using threatening language towards Francis Delvin, was bound over to kbep the peace for three months in £lO, and ordered to pay costs. CIVIL OASES. Mirback v. Egan, judgment summons for £9 10s. 3d; ordered to pay forthwith, or to be committed to gaol for a month. English v. Huggerty, £5 7s. 6d.; judgment