RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

♦— THIS DAY (Before W. Eraser, Esq., E.M.) LARCENY. Si*rah Martin (a little girl) was charged (on remand) with stealing, from the premies of the Uev. S. J. J^eill, two pairs of bco'3 and one pair of slippers. Mr Lu'le 1 said that he bad received infenration that there woald be room in the Indusl.iial School Auckland, fcr the accused in a few w iks, but he had but liti'e doubt th»i they would be able to rcake norn for lor uni.il iheu;

The liev. Mr .Ne;i'. sworn, deposed—l reside in Bollestoi s'reet. I had;occasion o )nJ.ve my h'»ase on Monday last. Ikck dtbedoo'S. I relumed in about 20 nrnu es. On going into the h use I s tv ibe accused coming out of my b drocru ; aidoo £oing ialo it saw a bundle c?a' 'nog the boots and slipper:, together with a hao pjd box of collars lying near the window, which waß open, and by me?, s of which s'?e probably entered the hou. c. ' I asked her her name, and she told me it was Lizzie Coleraan. Some irail was 'akea from a cupboard in the difiag-roooi, ard lay scattered about. I do toi wish (o n;\-w tiie cha-ge Mr Mar«'n, faiaci' of the child, promised, if H's Worship let her off this time, that ho would lake her in hand, end re'oi'm her. , His Worship said he had look 4 brer a previous offence, when ahe entered the Thames school; but he could not do so again. He must hare something more than a guarantee that she would not retuia to her evil "practices. She would be t sent to the Industrial School for a period of five years, lo be brought up in the Episcopalian faith. WANDEBING ANIMALS. ' ;' W' I|:am BobbeU, John Eull, .and W. H. Crick wei'e nu^d S3 6d and cos^s for allowing their ho> sea to wander at large. Court adjourned. :