THE GOLD FIELDS.
TUAPEKA POLICE COURT. (vrom'oub. own correspondent.) (Before Mr. "Worthington, R.M.) R. T. Dossett was charged with having absconded without providing sureties to keep the peace as against one Chamberlain. In this case Chamberlain swore that Dossett hnd threatened to shoot him with a revolver, and that he was in bodily fear of his life. The time of the Court was taken up "by the defendant asking a great number of irrelevant questions as to a former charge of a-sault, brought by the present plaintiff. Do-sett then made a statement to the effect that Its was told by Major Croker to go about his bu-iness, whereupon Mr. Field, Clerk of the Bench, rose and stated that Dossett had been arrested on an information laid by Chamberlain a day or two a'ter the date of the trial for the assault, and that it formed a .'oparate and distict cha'ree. On that information a warrant had been issued, the whereabouts of the defendant being then unknown. Dossett hnd been asked to find sureties, but had failed to do so. The Magistrate remarked that he had no option but to send him to gaol. He should commit him for three months, and during that period perhaps the necessary sureties might be found.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 154, 14 May 1862, Page 5
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211THE GOLD FIELDS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 154, 14 May 1862, Page 5
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