CRIMINAL.
O , Halloran, the defaulting postmaster of Whangarei, was arrested on April 3rd, near Ngunguru. Hβ has been committed for trial.
At the New Plymouth Supreme Court, on April 16, James Salisbury was senteuced to three years' imprisonment for arson, and five yearn , penal servitude, the sentence to begin at the expiration of the former sentonce for a revolting offence. The grand jury threw out the bill against Mary Ann Tiller for bigamy.
Harry Laing, a well-known pugilist, and a man named William Noble have been arrested at Wanganui on a charge of stealing £230 in notes from Joseph Abbotb, at Upokongaro. Bail in £200 each and two sureties of £100 each has been allowed.
Devine and Watson, firemen and greaaere on the s.e. Bayley, were committed for trial for "going through " the portmanteau of*a young man who shipped ab Timaru a3 trimmer. The bottom of the portmanteau wae slit, and the watch, £2 in money, a bank draft for £50, and clothing were stolen in a very barefaced way.
Areepectable-looking man named Reuben Smith was charged at> Auckland Court on April 7th before Messrs J. P..King and W. Lodder, justices, with having on the 4th of December, 1890, at Walleond, New South Wales, committed wilful and corrupts perjury in an action brought by the said Reuben Smith against one Smith and wife. Inspector Broham said he had received a report from the Police Department;, Sydney, asking whether defendant was in Auckland. The accused had been found in the Waipu district. Smith was remanded to New South Wales.
Clark, the absconding secretary of the Prince of Wales Lodge of Oddfellows at Port Chalmers, has been arrested at Sydney.
On April 11th afc the Supreme Court on the motion of Mr Steward an order was made that the Crawford Special Gold-mining Company be wound up by the Court. An appeal vras also made against the decision of Dr. Giles, R.M., remitting Robert Kurtz, accused of larceny, to Melbourne for trial. Counsel having addressed the Court, His Honor said he would be taking too much upon himself if ho overruled the decision of the Resident Magistrate. It was tolerably clear that the larceny charged was the larceny of £5 deposited with the accused for a bet and which he did not return, and it would be for a Victorian jury to declare what extent of guilt attached to the accused. If discharged he would no doubt have a remedy for the inconvenience to which he had been put. The appeal must be dismissed, and the accused taken to Victoria under the warrant. Costs were not allowed.
Thomas Floyd, or Fry, or White, or O'Hara, or Moore (for he calls himeelf all these names), waa on April Bth brought before a bench of Justices at the Police Court, consisting of Messrs S. Y. Colline, McLachlan, and W. Lodder, charged witfc having wilfully and maliciously and of malice aforethought, killed one William Veitch, at Wairoa South, on the 23rd March. Mr Hudson Williamson, in«trucbed by the police, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr H. Shortland for the accused. Mr Hudson VVilliamsoH in opening the sase
stated the circumstances as they would bo disclosed by the evidence. The murdered man Win. Veiteh was a settler in Wairoa South, an old man 75 years of age. On two or three occasions ha had employed the accused to do farm work. On the evening of 23rd March Veibch wan sitting with his housekeeper, Mrs Patterson, and heard the voice of accused calling him. He weut out. It was a light night. According to Veitch's statement accused camo up and accosted him, and then accused set upon him and assaulted him so that he became semiunconscious. He felt his pockets being rifled, and his watch and a copper token were taken. Mrs Patterson found him. Mrs Patterson would also say that she recognised the voice of accused. Veitch died eight days later. Dra. Bewes and Carolan would state that death \ras the result of the assault. A stick had been found near the place with blood and human hair on it. The watch was found in a lodging often occupied by the accused, a loft belonging to Mr Bain. He did not sloop in this loft on the night in question. Accused did not usually wear a watch, but on the night of the assault, at a lator hour, he was seen with one. Evidence having been takon, accused was committed for trial.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 93, 23 April 1891, Page 7
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