SATURDAY, 7th JULY.

Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 516, 11 July 1866, Page 3

SATURDAY, 7th JULY.

W. H. Harris, J. Smith, W. Linn, and B. Mutar, were fined for drunkenness. Charles Peters was charged with stealing a case of jam from outside the premises of Messrs. Ekensteen and Hall, in Dee-street, on the 4th inst. It appeared from the evidence that about half-past eight o'clock on the evening of the 4th inst., the case of jam in question was missed from the footway outside the shop, by the shopman, who gave information to the police. The case had never been opened, so that the prosecutor could only state that he believed it coutained jam from the circumstance of its forming one of a number of cases of that article he had received at the same time, some of which, on being opened, were fonnd to contain jam in tins. Sergeants O'Keefe and Shury, who were entrusted with the investigation of the robbery, suspecting the prisoner, hehaving been before convicted of larceny, went to a shop kept by him in the Arcade, and there found 58 tins of jam, similar to those described by prosecutor, hidden in a case, beneath some casks. There these wily officers left them until next day, when they found the prisoner with a dray in which the jam was packed in a barrel, 1 still covered with the turnips. The carI ter who first took them from prisoner's I 1 shop put them down for a short time, and

prisoner put them into another cart, where thej were found by the police. "When questioned by the police, the prisoner denied having any jam, and offered to accompany the officers to search his shop. At this stage the prisoner was remanded until two o'clock for the production of further evidence, but having managed to eftect his escape from the lock-up, the case was adjourned to Monday.