SUPREME COURT Lawrence.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 339, 18 March 1874, Page 3

SUPREME COURT Lawrence.

Tubsday, 17thf MABqn*- , (Before his Honor Mr. Justice dhapnian.) The grand jury having/ been >«uly, ompanHelled, and having elected Mr, Andrew Fer^ gueon their foreman, his ( Honor addressed them briefly, pointing Out their duties. There were three ind^ictntenls pi-esentecl to tliem'j one against Cairns for larceny, anc( another against theniaine prisoner for breach' of prison regulations, or attempting to escape; these called for little remark. ,'Thq , third was against a prisoner for an offence of a much more serious nature', I '. ahd whicn was of. too, frequent occurrence in this, province — that of criminal assault on a. child, ! ""' The grand jury returned true' bills in each indictment. ' ; ' ' ' The petty jury was Jbhen empannelled. Charltb Monaghan was charged witlMtealing from the shop of' Jonas Harrdp, in'Peel•treet, Lawrence, the sum of £15, on or about the 3rd October last. '" : Mr. Mouat prosecuted/ and : M'Coy defendedi^he prisoner.; ' . \ q •; Mr. Mouat having briefly addressed , the jury; called ' ' '"' •"' : ■ ' ."• Jonas Harrop, the' informant, who deposed — I Tecollect the 3rd October f last. I had money in both my cashbox and drawer in my ■hopjUtj The cashbox Was an ordinary, one, but jfche lid was broken. ; I had. about £}& or £16 in the t*o.: . On the 4th October I missed the notes,-, J ;did not then' suspect anyone. I •earched.and inquired, but heard nothing of the money until I hefcrd from the * pqlice. . I- never authorised anyone, to r«mov.e the money. >On ; Sunday •I , iuf onned . the police. I was .not sure then how much hadgone. The notes were on, #10 JBank of,Jfew South Wales. . '. , ''. \' ..' ]Croßs'-examined by Mr", M'Coy— When I informed the police I th' ought that one of tlie 435_note8 was.a Christchurch^iote. Ido not think no* that it was, because there was none such among tbe^moneys lip by Monaghan. 1 1! eSahnot identify iany of the' notes given up by him. I hope to get my' money if the prisoner, is found guilty." I hope to get it in either case. • ; Miles Hay deposed— l am' at school, I know the prisoner. I was in* his company wariy in October. We went up to M'Eimmie's slaughter yard. He said, " Sit down, and I will count my money." He took out a purse . trad, counted .£l6. There ,-was one £5 note, all.the/others werp £1 notes. I asked him where he got the money. He said,, f "Vyhat is that tb you ? " On another occasion after that : he said, ".Is not it easy to take anything friam Harrop'^^hop? " , I asked him how he made that "out," and he replied, "Because he is never in it.," Qjttss^eiamiped — I am not quite certain that the words he used were exactly' as I aoid" I think' they werei' '• Could 'not anyone take anything from Harrop's shop," "Elijah Titchener deposed — I am a sergeant of police, and am in charge of the gaol' } at < Lawrence. I. know- the prisoner. . He' was' arrested on another 'charge.^ After reading that charge to hun, I told him. there had been several.robberies in the. town. He said, " I know that I have taken money from Harrop's. shop." On another occasion he, was -'about to make a statement to, me, ,1 called Sergeant ]farrell. He . wrote what appears on^the paper produced, as an account of what he did- with the money. ' (■ The paper read thus:— "Clsik, baker, £2; Harris; £1; Airey,. 15s.- j Harrop, 17s: 6d.. j • the .rest at billiards at Armstrong's- and Koughan's.") He wrote tHe. names aridvE'put'clown the figures at his dictation. I .told, him the sums he named amounted. to xmly..£7 JLOs. He said he spent the rest at billiards at Armstrong's and Houghan.'s 'I wrq^e /t ; hat down an the paper. He made.another, statement I believe the same afternoon. JHe said, " I have not told the truth .about that money. I have torn up a £^ note and thrown it down tho closet." " On the following day I accompanied Mr. Inspector Thomson and prisoner to his father's place. The accused wenY into the water closet, put his hand into the hole in the eeat, and took from it this roje of nates. He was crying at the time, and said nothing. On Monday, the 18th, -accused came into toj room, and asked ,me for paper, pen and ink. He said he was desjrbus a of putting down the names of persons from \whom he had stolen - "money. He wrote this' paper in my presence, -sad gave it to me.^ (The paper read thus;: — " Mr. Arthur, fivepocket knives; Mr. Harris," bakehouse, 14a. 6d.^r Harrop, £15 ; Jeffery," £2 4«. 6d-. j J. Roiughan^^l ;-Hilir,a. watch. £4 of the money handed to ponce was my own. — Charles Monaghaw.") •He said ■ the watch was no good," and he' had broken it up, »nd thrown- it away, in Kilmarnock-street. He afterward* made a*., confession, which I wrote down at his. dictation, and which he afterwards, signed. This .was done voluntarily. . (The.pap.er reajl thus » — " I reme.mber •howing some 1 money to' a boy named 'Miles Hay. .Wevereionour way to M'Kimmie's *laugh£er yard when .1 showed him the money. 'Qa -that day. I had taken from Harrop's shop one £5 note and two £1 notes. Two days afterwards I went to the shop again. I then took two more £1 noteß, I took a £5 note the day following after I had taken the two fcrst £1 npies. I believe the total amount I took from' the shop altogether to bo about £15. The" whole of the money concealed by ISif in 'the water' closet, and subsequently handed by me to the police, consists of £15 stolen from Harrop, £&4s. 6d. from Jeffery, £1 from Bonghan, and 14s. 6d. from Harrop; the rest is my owri.-^C'HAELKS-MoN'AQHAN.") ' Mr. M'Coy addressed the " jury for the •defence. - "His Honor summed up strongly against the prisoner, and in doing so commented severely on Harrop for the careless way in which he ' kept his "^noney, 'thus almost 'inviting tnis depredation; ' His Honor spoke in high ternis ■of theway in which Sergeant Titchener- had giyeri his-evidenee. ' ,'sThefjury. retired for about twenty miriutes, *and on returning pronounced by their foreman the verdict "Guilty," and- strongly recommended ■ the prisoner j %o. ' nterey » on uocountol his youth and ' the great tempta-; 'tion'tdwnich'he was' exposed by the careless--ness of' tho prosecutor. ' < tQueen'T.i Cairns^ — The prisoner pleaded to two indictments— onej of larceny, one for prison breach. To be sentenced on Wednesday. • ' hQueen t: Drain.— The prisoner - pleaded guilty-to a charge of -assault with iateuti on- a igirl' ten years'of age,' To be sentenced on Wednesday. The'Gourt then adjourned. ' „ ;.

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