RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2137, 9 November 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

, . THIS DAY. (Before 11. C. Lawlor and J. Kilgour Ksqs., J.P.s) Tokatoa Amalgam Case.

' , Another Arrest. James Eycroft, on warrant, was charged tKat he-did feloniously .steal, take, and carry away from a battery at Coromandel, about 330 ounces of gold amalgam, on the 26th September, the said gold amalgam beiug?;the property of the Tokated" Gold* Mining Company. ■ Mr Bullen said accused had been apprehended on information, received. ..yesterday by telegraph from Coromandel that a warrant had been'issued for his arrest. From farther information subsequently received he (Mr Bullen) had reason to believe there was strong presumptive evidence of, his being connected with the robbery of amalgam. He would therefore ask that prisoner be remanded to Coromandel to be dealt with.

Eemanded to Coromandel to appear this day week.

CRUELTY TO A DOG

Pahemata, a Maori woman, was charged that she did cruelly illtreat a dog, by beating its head upon the wooden pavement,iat ShprLland,:o'n the Bth-instailt|,.

Mr Wilkinson was sWorn asin{ferpre|^f, and on the charge being made known the defendant admitted the offence.

Mr Bullen said this charge was laid under the Municipal Bye-law No. 3, under which any person for cruelty to an animal could, be fined- £5. ,\Mr Bullen said this case came under his own notice and he arrested the prisoner. She had taken a dog by the hind legs, and four times in succession swung it round her head and beat its head on the pavement, untibtlie dbg waS!rendered insensible, He regretted to say'Jthat tbere^ w^Sia inan,'iia Billiard marker at Ihe Shortland''Hotel, standing by and coolly looking on, and he deserved as much punishment as the woman but the law couldn't reach him. He (Mr Bullen) never witnessed a more aggravated case of cruelty to an animal in his life

- ■■'■•' The accused said she only did it once, and if she had seen Mr Bullen coming she would not have done it that time.

The Bench inflicted a fine of 20s and costs. " ; -_..-...«

Court adjourned