POLICE COURT—(THIS DAY.)

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1896, Page 8

POLICE COURT—(THIS DAY.)

(Before Messrs F. D. Rich and Prime J.P.'a.) Alleged Larceny.— Thomas Jackson and John Pollard were remanded till to-morrow on a charge of having on the 15th June stolen £1 in silver from the shop of Lucy Davison.

Alleged AssAtri/r.— George Head was charged with having on the 21sb insb. assaulted William Windsor.—Mr Cooper appeared for the accused who pleaded nob guilty. After hearing the evidence of the informant, Acting-Defective Quirke and another witness, the Bench decided to dismiss the case, each party to pay his own costs.

Alleged Threatening Language. — John Polaen was charged with having on the 17th insb. used threatening language towards Charles Pitcher.—Accused pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr Cooper,—The information waß dismissed. Countkefeit Coins.—John Reardon and Jamea Foilas were jointly charged with that they did .on the 29fch May utter a counterfeit coin so as to pass for v. coin of a higher denomination, knowing the same to be counterfeit.—Accused were represented by Mr Cotter and Mr Napier respectively, and Sergeant Gamble conducted the prosecution. — Mary Danzey* fruiterer, residing in Wake-field-street, deposed to Reardon coming into the shop aboub a quarter to six in the evening of the 29th May, and asking for a shilling's worth of oranges, which" witness served him with. In payment he tendered the coin (produced), which witness thought at the time to be a sovereign, bub which was really a shilling gilded over. Witness hit the coin on the countet, but aa Keardon said it was all right, and as she knew him, she pub the coin in her pocket and gave him 19s change. Foilas waa at) this time outside the shop window. Thb following morning Foilas came to the shop, and asked if Reardon gob a shilling's worth of oranges.with a sovereign the preceding night. Witness said "Yes." Follas said be wante J to get the coin bacK again. Wilnesß asked, " What ia wrong with it ?" and be said •• I tell you when you bring ib down." When be took the coin in bis hand he said, " It's a shilling, bub Reardon is nob to blame, he did not know anything about it." He also said that he had been drunk the night before and bad been let in for £2 10s, bhat he changed a half sovereign for another man and ib turned oub to be the same kind of coin as that gob by witness. He then told her he would take the coin to the station along with the other, bub witness preferred to take ib herself. The same day, after witness returned from the station, ehe caw Follas and Reardon again, when they promised to pay the money back between them, if the case waa withdrawn.—By Mr Cotter : Reardou lived about lOOyds away from witness' place in the same street. — Chief-Detective Grace, who arrested Reardon, deposed to Reardon paying that tho coin was given to him by Follas, and that he was sorry he did not fell the truth about ib ab first.—ActingDetective Bailey, who arrested Follas, also gave evidence.—Counsel contended there was no felonious intent on the parb of the accused in passing the coin. They had been defrauded themselves, and it was nob till subsequently that the fraud was discovered. — Both the accused were discharged after evidence had been heard. *