POLICE COURT.—This Day.
[Before Messrs Bee-ham and MoMillan, Justices of the Peace.] DRUNKENNESS.
Hene Tene a native, was charged with being drunk, and fined 5s and costs. David Macfarlane forfeited his bail. A GIRL THIEF. Jemima Morgan, a young girl, with a fashionable hat. and a profusion of hair hanging down her back, was charged with stealing a blanket and rug, value 10s, the property of Samuel Butcher, on the 6fch inst. The girl hung down her head, and pleaded guilty. lb appeared that Mr Butcher hung out his blanket and rug to dry, on a line in his gar-
den, after a day's work, and on going^to take them in, he found that some one had saved him the trouble; he suspected the prisoner, who was a neighbour in Chancery-lane ; she pawned the things at Mr Heavey's, Wynd-ham-street. , The Benoh said that this was not prisoner s first offence of this kind by many, and sentenced her to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
This was all the business.
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Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 1974, 7 June 1876, Page 2
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