RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.
(Before H. M'CuUoch, Esq., E. M.) FRIDAY, 22nd JUNE. Mary Horton was charged by J. V. Ingram, of the Garrick Club Hotel, with stealing from his bar a decanter, containing whisky. Sergeant Shury deposed that having received information of the robbery, and suspicion pointing to the prisoner, who is a person of very depraved habits, he went to her house, and there found the empty decanter produced. James Valentine Ingram identified the decanter as his property, and valued it, with its contents, when stolen, at 12a. Another charge, of a precisely similar nature, against the prisoner, was then preferred by Thomas Meadows, of the Southern Cross Hotel, Dee-street, a decanter, containing whisky having been found by Sergeant Shury m the prisoner's
Meadows as his property. The Bench sentenced the prisoner to six weeks' imprisonment, with hard labor, for each offence.
SATURDAY, 23rd JUNE
"W. J. Launceston was fined 205., or 48 hours' imprisonment, for creating a disturbance in the street the previous evening.
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Southland Times, Volume 1, Issue 501, 25 June 1866, Page 2
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166RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Southland Times, Volume 1, Issue 501, 25 June 1866, Page 2
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