RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, LAWRENCE.
(Before His Worship the Mayor. Monday, Jan. 13. Danis Rourke for being drunk and disorderly was fined 10s., with the alternative of 3 days imprisonment wich hard labor, in Lawrence gaol.
Tuesday, Jan. 14. (Befo-e Vincent Pyke, Esq., R.M., His Worship the Mayor, and J. F. Herbert, Esq., J.P.) Sinclair M'Beath charged with committing a breach of the Licensing Ordinance, by selling liquors on the Beaumont racecourse without the usual temporary license, was fined 205., arid costs, 6s 6d. John Gately, a lad of thirteen years of age. charged with stealing a sovereign from the desk of R. M'Kimmie, was remanded till the following day.
Wednesday, Jan. 15. (Before Vincent Pyke, Esq., R M.) John Gately, on remand from the previous day, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a sovereign from Robert M*Kimmie. R. M'Kimmie said he met the accused at the Clutha on the 6th- instant looking for a job at a fl-ix mill. Witness engaged him and brought him to Lawrence ou the Bth instant. Accused was to receive ss. per week and board. On Saturday, the 11th instant, between ten and eleven o'clock, there was a sovereign in the till, which about midday he missed. On Monday he (witness), while cleaning the stablo, shifted a large stone, under which he found a purse containing 12s. 6d. (purse produced). On challenging the accused, he admitted having taken the sovereign and that the purse was his ; that he had bought the purse, and that the 12a. 6d. was his. When accused left Clut.ha he showed all the money he had, which was 6d, in an old purse. Witness had not paid him any money. Inspector Thompson said accused had, in January, 1870, been convicted of stealing books, and sent to the Industrial School for three yeara. He again appeared in court in March of same year, for absconding from the Industrial School, and was scut back and whipped. He was licensed out to a farmer named Sinclair, at Waihola, from whose service he had 1 ____^i _ l - •
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 259, 16 January 1873, Page 7
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343RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, LAWRENCE. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 259, 16 January 1873, Page 7
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