POLICE COURT.-THIS Day.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 130, 10 June 1885, Page 2

POLICE COURT.-THIS Day.

(Huforo 11. 0. Seth Smith, Ksq., B.M )

llnuNK.—Four persons wero punished for this olienco; John Tlmckaborry, 103.

Ptkalimi a Blanket.—Robert Temple, alias Johu-on. was charged with stealing a blanket ami shirt, .el lis (id, ou tho 2ml ln.t —Prisoner pleaded 1101 guilty.-John McTngjrart dapoued that lis le.d,;_d at tho Tomporanco Hoarding House. Wjnilhaiii-.troot. Ho missed the articles from his •portmanteau. Had Boon prisoner loitering about the Htoro-room. I.aw prisoner at his bug. Ho denied taking tlio things. He iu._ruied Dutoctivo Jones. JP.lsouor was a Btranger to him.—Dotectivo Jones deposed to receiving inform*tlun ot tho robbery on tho 2nd inst, but did not And tho prisoner until lust night Ho charged him with the otl'once. Prisoner said ho bouglit tho shirt In Sydnoy. Ho was n eeunmu ; ho put tho blanket ln bis ban by mistake, and did not tako it away from tho houso.—His Worship found prisoner guilty, and ordered seven dnyß' Imprisonment. Assault.—Walter Walker was oharged with assaulting John lltirko. on tho 7th lust., while assisting a constable in tho oxooution ol his duty.—Sir E. Coopor, in defonce, asked for a remand. Dofendant was highly respectable, and tho ovldoneo would eliow that it was a oaso of mistaken Idontity In a crowd.—Remanded until to-morrow. Ball allowed—himself in £50, and two sureties In £23 oach.

HAUCKNIES AT MKBSRB (>WBN AND OIIAHAKI'-. —Sal»odor Tropin!, or Williams, an Italian, was charged with larcony of an orerooat. valuo ii Ss, on tho Bth last, _;-om the atoro of Messrs Dwell and Htaham. tho proporty of Mr Gabriel Howis.—Mr Lowls dopoacd to holding a salo of salvage on behalf of the insiiranoo companies. Mr Carr wns tho auotloneor. Ho oonld not swear Ui ihu coat—David Dingwall, olork to Messrs H. Tonic, nnd Co., deposed that pri;oner's namo was not on tho list of buvors.—Conßlablo Herbert deposed lo being on tho promises of Messrs Owen and Uraham on tho Bth inst. Sow prisoner going upstalrß without an ovorcoat. Ho came down with an ovorcßat on. Ho charged prisoner, who thought ho was joking. Said, in fair Kxglinh, ' Thero aro pionty mor.i upßtalrs." Toldliimhowasacoiißtable. Prisonor thon said ho was a poor man with a wife and family, and ho would give him tho ooat and 20s for his liberty. —Mr Napier then addressed tho Court in defonce, and urged that tho case muet fail, as Mr H.wlb wna not tlio owner, but tho Insuranco Companies, and It was too lato to amend the Information.—llls Worohlp said ho must givo counsel tho benefit of tho objoctlon, and dismissed tho caso.—Wm. Borry wos oharged with Btoaling a shirt and eight soar, ties, valuo 2.5, from tho same promises. The evidence was-the same aa in tho provloua cose. —Mr Napior in defence.— Charles McGinn, living with his parents in Stanloy-Btroet, Baw prisoner in custody on his way to tho watchtiouso. Ho dropped two of tho ties, and witness pii-kod them uu and took thoin to Coiistablo Herbert—Mr Napier said tho samo objection must bo fatal in this crbo. Messrs Tonka and Co. woro ln possession of tho goods, and not Mr Lewis.—Hia Worship held that the objection was fatal, and dismissed tha easo.

Caning A Pni'iL.—James Rupert Flavell was charged ou suninuniH with boatlpg Osmond Thornton with a stick, at Nownuirkot, on the 2nd in*S.--Mr K. Coopor, li- dnfence. plend-tl not guilty.—Mr Maliony opened tho ei.se for i_i_ prosecution.—James Thornton, accountant, of Newmarket, doposed that his aon was oleven years of age. Mr Braford was tool head-master. On Wedneaday morning tho complaint was m,ilo to him ; his legs bore signs of punishment. —Mr Kia veil explained that the boy was lmportii.ont—To Mr Cooper: Hoard that tho boya hud disapproved of Mr Flavoll. Did not know tint tho boys had hooted. Bid not know what was meant by a pan-cake print His Bon was not, delicato, as counsel would know If he had tho feeding of him.—Osmond Thornton deposed to tho beating. Hod several strokes on tho hand and legs. He was not impertinent.—Matthew Edgar, 14. a pupil, saw the master give 28 boys two strokes on tho bank and one on the leg with the oano. Ho gavo Osmond a glass of wator.— To Mr Cooper: The boys did hoot Mr Flavoll but neither ho nor Osmond joined in the hooting Ho dodged Mr Klawoll to avoid a smacK, and did not sco a Btone thrown. Somo ol the boys woro rowdy on the previous day. Osmond fainted, and called for a drink of water. Ho had been tickled occasionally. Arohibald Kent gave similar evidence. Osmond was out of tho lino whon he got it. Don't think he was impudout. Hooting was not general, ono llttlo fellow was mostly tho hootor. To Mr Coopor: He (witness) was a pretty good boy, ho picked up a lump of clay, did not threaten to throw it at Mr Flavell, ho was only fooling. A little boy named Kilgour was being "lambed." and he ran away and called his big brothor. —Mr Flavell promised to bring a largor cano as Mr liruford's was child's plajr.—Without hearing witnesses in defence, His Worship dismissed tho case without coats,

Summons Casks.-Joseph Beattio (Beattio and Smith) was fined 5s coßts 7a for failing to keep a light burning at his hoarding in Commerce street.—.Ronald Martin, a butcher's boy ot Ponsonby, was fined sa, 7s costs, for fast ridiDg across a footpath.