POLICE COURT.-This Day.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1626, 3 May 1875, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-This Day.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.) DRTTNK.

Thomas Airay, Alexander Walker, Thorn«« H. Mason, Henry Jones, Albert Tudberry, and John Nash pleaded guilty to having been drunk, and were punished as per usual. Alexander Walker, and John Carr, out on bail, did not appear, and their bail waa ordered to be forfeited. .EXPOSURE.

George Dysetfc was charged with wilfully I and obscenely exposing himself in Queen, street on Saturday night. The offence being admitted, his Worship commented upon the frequency of such cases, and ordered the prisoner to be committed to prison for three months with hard labour. SUNK IK INIQUITY. Agnes Conlon, one of the most inveterate offenders who are seen in the Court, wag charged with being drunk, and also with being an incorrigible rogue and a vagabond. Prisoner pleaded guilty to both charges, and for the first received, a sentence of seven days, and fot the second —four months' imprisoament. A HOW IN JERMYN STREET. Walter Pell was charged with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, value Is. 9d., and iniuring a door to the extent of 305., ,the property oE Mrs. Conley, in Jermyn Street Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Rees appeared for the defence. ! Susan Conley, residing in Jermyn Street, deposed that last night, about 10 o'clock, she sa*v the prisoner knocking at, her door., and driving at it with a stick. He used J" frightful language to her daughter. He poked the stick through ; the window and injured the door to the extent of about 30a. She did not know the prisoner. He had no reason for doing what he did. By Mr Rees : She was quite certain she did not see the prisoner at the Royal.Hotel, on Sunday afternoon. ' :^ . Mr Beckham : Perhaps you are forgettinfif the fact that yesterday f?aa Sunday, Mr Rees ; they could not have been there yea-a, terday. - Mr Rees : I am not so sure of that, your ( . Worship. The witness steadily swore that she had never seen the prisoner before," either by himself or.in. company' with a man named Mahoney. Annie"Hassell, amarried daughter of the last witness, said the prisoner came to her mother's door last night just as she was going to bed, and made a great disturbance. He wanted, to come in, and said if she,didn's, open to him he would break the house down. By Mr Rees: Her mother, at the time the prisoner was breaking the door, was returning from seeing a friend home. She was in the act of opening the door when he pushed the umbrella produced through the glass. It was not the umbrella produced in Court, but a much heavier one. He broke the" door with the umbrella. . She did not know whether her mother had offered to withdraw the charge for a sum of money. Mary Conley deposed to being the first to hear the prisoner at the door. He said his name was Pell. She called her sister.. She saw the damage done,to the window. ..„,,_ . Constable Hanley said he went toj Jer-. myn-Btreet in consequence of what he heard from Mrs Conley; -He found the door and window ' damaged. The window had a small hole through it. •although a stick had been pushed through it. The panel of the door injured was an upper panel. It could not have been damaged by a kick. He arrested the prisoner at Fernandez's hotel later on. ' , . Henry Mahoney deposed that he himaelr, Pell, and the prosecutrix were all together^ in the Clarence Hotel on Sunday evening. Pell asked Mrs Conley to have a dtink: She. had a glass of port. His Worship : And what did you-have ! Witness : Sherry your Worship. ; ' His Worship : Oh ! sherry, eh ? and what did Pell have ?

Witness : He had port, sir. ; His Worship: Why, it must have been quite a nice little party. - (Laughter.) And on a Sunday evening, too. I trust the police will take notice of these pleasant little gatherings at the Clarence Hotel. ... Witness: After drinking, Mrs Conley went out by one door, and Pell by another. He was quite sure that Pell and Mrs Conley met, and spoke' to one another at the Clarence Hotel last evening. The drink was served by the landlady. His Worship said it would be as well to get the testimony of the landlady. There was perjury somewhere. He should adjourn the case till to-morrow. The prisoner was admitted to bail on his own recognisances of £10, and the case was adjourned. "?.''■:*.

- LAJRCENY. Daniel "Donovan, accused of stealing articles of wearing apparel from the Provincial Hospital, was , remanded, on the application of Mr Broham, till Wednesday.

HOCUSSING. . Alexander' Campbell alias Douglas, and Martha Nicholson,were, charged on remand with stealing £8, 'tW "property of Owen Martin, on the 27th ultimo, in West Queenstreet. • • ... i c ■ ... ~

The male prisoner is a man about 35 years old, with a dark bushjbeird.- The female prisoner is a pretty little girl' about 13, who seemed wholly unaware of the Berious nature of the charge brought against her. • ■ \ . ■=. Owen Martin deposed, that he came up ~ from Corpmandel last month. He went to the Qld House at Home to stay. On the fy 27th ult. he went to"have dinner atNiehol-' " son's Boarding-house, in West Queen-street. After dinner he felt queer, and went up stairs to lie down., ( He had- one, fiye:pound '' note, two one-pound notes, a sovereign, and some; silver in his pocket aat the"1 time.) ■ He had fixed a pin in his waistcoat pocket to prevent the notes' getting dut.^ He was .. roused in his sleep by feeling the girl taking 1% money from his pockets. She had some-: silver in her band. He took the money V away from her, and .'gave her a "box,*' He did not count the money. He searched his pockets"before" he left the house and found all his money gone except the silver he had taken from the female prisoner. He saw the male prisoner before he went for the * police. He asked him to go out, but he would not. He pointed out the room where Campbell was to the detectives. The notes produced were similar to those he had lost. He could not swear to them.

By Mr Laishley: Although he took the beer a week ago and still felt the effects of it, he was woke up within half-an-hour of drinking it by the female prisoner taking the money out of his pockets. The prisoners asked no questions. Detective Grace deposed to going to the house in question at the solicitation of Martin. He spoke to tha male prisoner, and asked him if he knew anything about the money. (lie replied in the negative. Witness then asked him if he was in the house when the prosecutor went up to lie down. He replied that he was, and that he had been about the house from dinner-time to the time when prosecutor complained of the loss of his money. Witness then told the female prisoner to put on her hat as she would have to come to the station with him. Campbell asked witness to go and search the closet aahe had seen prosecutor out there, and he would sooner see the money found than see the girl go to gaol. He accompanied the prisoner out to the closet where he searched about the boards with his hands. They could find nothing. A short distance off there were some sticks of firewood. : In lighting up one of of these witness plainly saw prisoner drop from his coat sleeve one five pound note, and one one pound note (produced). He then charged him with the present offence. The prosecutor pointed out to him the room ia a

detached house, where he had seen the male prisoner lying, after he had missed his money. In company with Detective Jeffrey he searched that room, and found the missing £1 note inside the lining. He confronted the prisoners together, and Nicholsald she would tell the truth now.

'it half-an-hour after Martin went to it iown upstairs, the prisoner Campbell walked up to the top of the stairs and took off his boots. He was out of her sight about fifteen minutes. He then returned carrying his boots in his hands, and put them on again at the back door. Before he went up stairs Campbell told her that the prosecutor bad plenty of money in his inside vest pocket, and that by opening one button of the vesfc it could be easily taken. She made this statement in the presence of the male prisoner. Detective Jeffrey deposed that he arrested the female prisoner. She said it wasn't she but Campbell who took the money, and added other particulars. She said -that they had noticed at dinner time that Martin kept his money inside his vest, and Campbell proposed to rob him if he could get him drunk. She said they got some beer and Campbell chewed up some tobacco and put it in Martin's glass. It was after that he went up-stairs to sleep. Witness added that between five and six o'clock that evening he was sitting in the Sergt. -Major's room, when he heard some one rush out of the guard-room. He saw the prisoner running up High-street. He gave chase, and caught him three parts of the way up High-street. He asked him what he did that for, on which he replied: "You don't blame me surely for trying to get my liberty." Some time after this prisoner sent a message to witness by the watch-house keeper to say that he wished to speak to him. He went to him, and prisoner said he could see now how it was .Nicholson's people wanted to put ifc off on to him. It was the girl who committed the robbery.

Mr Laishley submitted that as the female prisoner was not present, this last statement was not evidence against the girl.

His Worship : Ho ; but it against Campbell. Of course you only look after your client, but Mr Broham ia looking after both (Laughter.)

Witness continuing : The male prisoner said the girl had first taken Martin's scarf pin, and " planted" it behind a picture. He (prisoner) found out it wasn't gold and advised her to give it him back. She then went up and brought down £1, which she planted in a house close by. It was from this information witness and Detective Grace found the note. Prisoner added that afterwards the girl went up and brought down the £5 note and the £1 note, and " planted " them tinder some firewood. The male prisoner had previously been to the station-house, and reported the robbery, but denied all knowledge of it. Witness had then asked him why he did not then give th» same version of it. To this he made no answer.

Prisoner said he had no questions to ask. His Worship : What—not after all this evidence ? That is strange. The prosecutor recalled said, when he lay down he had a gold pin in his scarf. He missed it on his way down stairs. The female prisoner gave it to him. He had told her that he would give her a few shillings if she would give it up and have< no more " blather " about it..

This was the case for the proseution,

The Court here adjourned for half-an hour.

Both prisoners pleaded guilty and the man was sentenced to twelve months and the girl to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.

This was all the business,