POLICE COURT.—Saturday,

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 454, 24 June 1871, Page 2

POLICE COURT.—Saturday,

. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., Resident Magistrate.] < ' ' " f DiiUNKAßDa.—Charles Clarksoh wai filled 10s. and costs for this offence ; and Jamu Murray, being his third offence, was ordered to b« imprisoned for seven days. (""'] TJttebin<j Fobo-ed Tbanoteb.'^—The charge against D. Gvfiimaile, of having uttered two forged transfers of Alburnia ,sorip, was resumed.— James Skene deposed : I;\an> 'tan auctioneer and commission agent, residing at G-rahamston. I know nothing of the transfer marked^''B," now produced. It is not raysignature, nor have I ever had any transactions with the-prisoner.—The prisoner wai committee!i for.triaL—The same prisoner was further charged with having uttered a promissory note for £25 with a fo-ged endorsement. —William Thorne, solicitor, deposed that prisoner had settled for obtained against him by Mr. Lerittot for £17 by the protriissery note, being the signature of Andrew Rooney, and that he (Mr: Thorne) Had given a cheque for £5 in exchange. Rooney, a farmer at Epsom, deposed that the signature was' a forgery.^Tames Van Maratoa, a solicitor, doing business for Mr. Kooney, deposed to the signature being unlike Rodney's.—The prisoner was* 1 committed for trial on this charge also. On all previous charges the prisoner, was committed,, for trial. Bail was ailowed-^in'the first case, $Wp sureties o,^£JOQ,^a^i t ,ftp<L,fpr ...eachof the; other charges two suretie* of £50 each, with. the, s prisoner's own bond for double the amount.'