END OF A SPREE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1558, 13 December 1883, Page 2

END OF A SPREE.

A shearer from the Wairarapa, after earning a few pounds in fleecing sheep, came into the city for a spree, and got fleeced himsolf." A young man named H. Clarke, alias G. Brown, was charged yesterday at the Resident Magistrate's Court with stealing £3 in money, a pocket-book, and other articles belonging to Patrick McMahon. The evidence showed that the prosecutor met the prisoner early on Monday at a publichouse, and after treating the prisoner to drinks all day at various houses, they finished up with a row at Pipitea Point, iu a questionable house. There the prosecutor, after paying for drink, pullod off his coat to fight a man known as Frenchy, who kept thehouse. The prisoner held the coat daring the scrimmage, and after it was over, the prosecutor ffiissed from the coat his pocket-book, containing about 13 in money, also a silk handkerchief, knife, and stud. Frenchy said he saw the prisoner feeling in the pockets, Chief-Peteotire Brown uaw

the prisoner tako a woniau into the theatre that night, paying eight shillings for two tickets to the dress circle. The prisoner was apprehended next day, when he had on him a pocket-book similar to that missed, though the identity was not certain; also a silk handkerchief, a knife, and a stud, which were identified as being missed from the coat. The prisoner had another handkerchief, which seemed suspicious, and also 10s 8d in money He denied stealing any of these articles, and said the prosecutor was so drunk and reckless on Monday that he gave away some of the articles, and the prisoner picked up tho stud. As the prisoner preferred to bo dealt with summarily, he was found guilty, and sentenced to three month's hard labor. ~N. Z. Times.