SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1579, 10 January 1884, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

(From the N.Z, Times). , HOW-A WATCH DISAPPEARED. . Elizabeth Trenery, a middle-aged woman of dissolute appearance, was] charged, with stealing a -watch'and' chainfrom -the person of. an old'man, George Edwards, at ©arterton on the 2nd November. ■; Prißoner'pleaded not guikjr'aiid by Mr E, Sli'aw'i' .'•'■ ■■. *"-'■:• •••••■ '' . George Kdwards, a farmer at Taratahij;-' deposed that he attended the agricultural show at Carterton, and unable to find'-his horse ..that ovening, be / stayed at a'. hotel. . He went next morning to a cottage near an accommodation paddock, and asked about his horse. Saw the prisoner,' who asked him to go. inside, and she then suggested that he should have familiarities with a young woman, Jessie Walker, who was in the room. Jessio complained of having no clothes fit to wear,-and' ho took pity on. her and went to the township to gather a new skirt, for which he paid 10s 6d.' When he returned with the present, sho asked him for a drink, and as he began to think she had been imposing on his charity, he gave her Is' 6d to quiet her,'arid he tried, to get out of the house. She then seized him by the throat, saying. ,she-;. .would have his money,. • During the smuggle,: two men came into tlfoft'Oht'room,'arid the prisoner, who had been lying dowhj also jumped, up and tugged at his watch'ch'ain, saying, " Yoii old: beast, you'll lose your watch,'!'. He then escaped by the door, and ; immediately found that his watch anil.chain were ntosing, ■ Was.'.'certain it was the •prisoner,.and not Jessie Walker, who tugged his watch-from his .waistcoat pocket, "■' '"''..;-...'', -.' ; Alfred Turner, a/:brJcklayer,Baid he and another man went'with the prosecutor, on the the 2nd,;tosee if the watch could be. recovered' at'tlie cottage. Was told-that a child'had picked lip parts, of a chain, and the parts were to'him. . .Mr Shaw did' not; call evidence for the defence,'and-asked: thejuryjifithey could believe the. absurd improbabilities of the prosector's story;- 'The watch and -chain lmff not been found. - -His-Honor directed, the jury that, if -they were satisfied the prisoner and. Jessie.Walker wore acting in collusion, and- that the 'prisoner took part in a scuffle, in which the prosecutor's watch was'takeh by either of the women, then then the prisoner would be as much a principal offender 88.-.if ; the watch wero found in her possession.The .jury conferred about ten minutes, and fouhd'a. verdict of 'guilty! ' The prisoner declaimed she was innocent. \-,:,- •. ; ;.'..,■,".-'.- .. , His Honor said" it was 'necessary .; that persons.of her"• profession/ though \ they-would perhaps continue to dxist. i as keepers of immoral. houses, should ' be preyentoi-■from'doing mischief as. i far as possible. ; Hb wasletting,heroff j cheaply in, sentencing her 'to one year's ] hard.labor.'. C-'.'■)■')., ': V.. ( " ;The pvißOner-ahed'teftrs,'.and, ; was ] removed.;;'-:., .; "'o':^.:.',.;''] '■ 'We ; Court'()djwirned till next i