R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2498, 12 January 1887, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

CARTERTON —TUESDAY.

(Before Mr Von Stormer, R.M. and B, Boys, and W. Booth J.P.'s)

. J. Neilson vP. Daly. Mr Beard for defendant, Judgment for £i Is 2d and costs £1 9s.

Thos. hay v J. Martin.' • Mr Beard for plaintiff. Judgment for £SO for plaintiff with costs. R, Hooker vB. Bndden, Mr Tait •for plaintiff. Evidence pro note. Judgment for plaintiff £3B ( l4s 4d; and costs, £3 12s.' > 1 , Jv^BuckeridgO'v Til Nana. ; Mr Beard for plaintiff, Mr Sandilands for defendant. A question of rent i was disputed and the case was adjourned to npxt sit ting. '

E. L.Wakulin v R; Riibinson, juii. Judgment for plaintiff for '£7 8d and costs 14b.

J. Buclreridge vTnru Takaitu. Adjourned te sittin/jf. ; onstahle Darby vTlios, McNorton, —for stealing gondii,, |iz., two silver medals, from Mr W.Cy feuchanun at Tupiipnru,.to die value]of L 7-. . <■ j)/i{. : Macfntyre dojiosed —I am cook fiir Mr Haggerty a'ti Wainuioni, Know, the prisoner, andfyas in company with him/on Christmas Diiy at the- Gladstone • Hotel togrAjicr \vit)i another man named Dpniii&iCronatj.-' We arrived at tho hotel ahiiut %'clocjc and remained there about two''hours when wo :all started for home; Theprisoner was drunk, and we left him for a short'ii'nm <o have a sleep while wo alaycd afc'thoMaori pah. Two or three hours later w» we woke him up and cnntiniield our jonnuiy * ti'l we arrived near Mr Buchanan's house. The prisoner then laid down again, and we left him and went *0 our homes. • I next saw Prisoner on Monday evening 27th December at the camp at Wai. nuioru, TJie liat produced in Court is the one prisoner ppre on Christmas Day. Whpji: Jie arrived at.t))P Pamp he was m.ud(l)ed with drink. I did not see : him carrying anything wh,en hfi.pame to the Camp.

The prisoner s?j ( l he had no question to ask witness, as he believed that he had spoken nothing but the truth. ; To the Court: I identify the hat by

the diamond; shaped hole cut in the to]>, . ' ' Dennis Cronan, residing 'at Waiinai(Oru, was in company \yith prisoner anil last witness on Christmas Day, at the Gladstone Hotel, and corroborated the former evidence. ■ I would, not swear to the'jiat the accused wore at the time. The day before the'constable, came to ? Wainuiorii I found a dark mackintosh near a track leading to the Westmere dai'rnear the--coat• fltttSrolleci up in a.pocket' kndkerchief. 1 heard of a robbery - having been committed previous to finding.the coat, and when Ifound 161" told' my employer (Mr Haggerty) about it, The coat produced is similar to tho one I found. 1 would not sweat' that it is the same. The handkerchief produced is similar ■to the one I found, I handed the coat to Sir Wilfr'red'Ruthe'rford. Will not swear, to tho handkerchief. (To the prisoner :T had no suspicion of you when I found the coat.) (To the Court: It might be 100 yards from the house where we left the prisouer. I had no suspicion of the accused,) ~ W, GVBuchanan deposed: I had been in Ureylowu on .Christmas, and ; arrived home between 10 and 11 p.m. T went.to bed about, 11, and' to the beat of my belief the doors of the bouse were fastened. In the; entrance hall there were some coats''and other articles, Tho servants told me nevfc morning that someone had;been in the Hall during the night and taken a coat. The coat produced 1 1 recognise as belonging to me by a mark on the collar. On further search there were two gold medals medals missing from a mantel shelf in another room. I con-: aider the value of the coat between £3 and £i, and the two medals about £4. • To the Court; I could not fix the exact date when 1 last saw the medals, but it was'a few days before Christmas," [ reported the loss of the r things, on Monday, December 27th, I cannot' swear to the accused. .

To the prisoner; I did not see any. one in the paddock when I returned home on Christmas, nor yet liea? anyone about the place. I did not hear that you slept out that night, Wilfred Rutherford deposed—l reside at Mr Buchanan's station at Tupurnpuiu as bailiff. I went to Carterton on Christmas I)ayv I arrived at home about two a.m. on Sunday morning. Just aa I was entering the door I heard a noise outside of the house, and looking round I saw the figure of a man, I went towards a small goto to meet him, and on arriving at the gato the man come to meet me. I asked him what ho was after and be said that he had missed his way and come in the wiong gate. I believe that he returned the same way as he came. As.it was dark.T could not rightly distinguish his dress, but he appeared to have a dark coat on. I could not swear that the man in Court is the same man, but the voice strikes me as ( being similar. I went to tho Camp with tlm Constable, when a water proof coat was handed to me by Dennis Cronan. The coat produced is one similar to the one handed to me. 1 gave the coat to ConstaMe Eccleton at Wainuiorii, When I went back I found the dotir ajar, I cannot .say whether the key was in the lock or not.

To the prisoner: The man which I saw was some yards from the house, I believe I have seen you about Mr Buchanan's place.

To tin) Court: I cannot swear to the man, ior it was too dark to recognise him. I cannot swear that this is the coa* which the accused had on, To the acciified; I did not hear about you sleeping out till I reached the camp at Wainuioru. ' Manaheri Tahana, deposed: I know the accused. I remember the day after Christmas Day. I saw the accused near my residence at \Vnipoapoa, He had a dark colored shirt on, a black hat, and lylit tweed trousers; the hat now produced I identify as the Rame worn by the accused. He had a parcel in his hand which I took to be a coat with the lining outwards. The one now produced is similar -40. the one I saw the accused';with." -Tue accused had qn a white neskerchief with colored borders; • the, now produced is like it.. The acctiseff toll' me that he was hungry. .1 tolti him to go to my placo and, get some.; food. Afterwards I saw him at, the-hotel at Gladstone. ;

To the prisoner: I- Saw y&ii with the coat when I met you on thtr'road, I don!t know where .yon. left.'the, coat, while youwent' to thepah; I. met, you about a hiile'.{)r.l| milra from the |wli.V.l was.close to you.when..! spoke to yoli. 1 did not ask' you any questions. I savv you pn'jtiie road just by, a Jot.of.Bcrub, .•'

.. Mr Rntherforil, recalled The man whom I saw at the gate on the morning before stated .appeared to be drunk, I was not more than a yard from him. . 'Constable Eccleton proved the arrest of the ; accused on suspicion of the robbery of a coat and two gold'medals from.the residence of Mr Buchanan. Chsb dismissed, the coats to be returned to M r Buchanan,