POLICE COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 23 June 1902, Page 2

POLICE COURT.

Friday.—Before Mr 11. L. Stanford, S.M. BREAKING AND ENTERING. ll«para Tiki was brought up on renaaad thargsd clanged with breaking and entering Messrs Jacob and O'B iea'ssto. eat Mahoenuion the 22nd inet. | Mr Freth ag.in acted rs inVpra- : ter. I Henry Homiyc-r, music fc-acber, residing at Mr Juhn Eilio.'c, ab;ut 10 chains distant from the store, paid tbat ■ latterly ha h»d been looking after the s'ore which he 1 fc s'curely fas'ensd at 4 p.m ,on tin second ii s k -, but on I I returning at 7.30 on the following morning he fouad the look-of tin door A sVher with tl.e p'iot ,brokia was lying and tha ,docr and dojr post 3 sho.ved sigts of , having be n forced open with tbe s'asher. He ideiit'fi d the article* pro luce 1 as being of the same cltfs as jtlns) at the store. The totnl I vslue of the property stolen was ov»r I £3. Know tbe a xus d, who lived two mi'es from the store. The nearest s'ore ia 12 miles in one direction and j 18 in another. | Samuel Whitehead, billiaid saloon j keep r at Mokiu, said ho saw prisoner on tha 4th, when he was wearing a pair of te r spurs similar to those in (Jcurt. As the s'.rapa were not long 1 enough for prisoner, witness exchanged the® for a longer pair. 1 Oa the usual queition being pu*, prisoner e'ee'ed to pleod guilty, and ' | was remitted to tbe Supreme Court at Auckland for sentenc.'. MAINTESENCB. Harvey Gawi'h was charge with failing to provide adequate mainteaance for his wife, L ; ly Gawith. Mr Wihon appeared for the oomplainant. After heaiirg evindcce, his Worship adjourned the c,bi for 14 days to enable defendant to find work, and sufficient means for mait.tiiaiig his wife.