RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1886, 1 May 1869, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Chbistchuech—April 30. [Before C. C. Bowen, Esq., B.M.] LATJCENY, . .-...; John Henry BeLion, who has been convicted en five previous occasions for similar offences, was brought up in custody charged with stealing a pair of trousers from the Mechanics' Hotel. ... Frederick Watling said—l have been living at the Mechanic , , Hotel. The prisoner slept in the next bedroom.' I missed the trousers yesterday morning. The trousers produced are the ones. I next saw them in prisoner s possession; he was offering them for sale. John Thomas Kennedy proved to seeing the prisoner offering the trousers for sale near tbe Government .buildings. This closed the evidence hvthis case. : There -was also a charge of violent assault against the prisoner. .....,., John Thomas Kennedy I was; walking behind the prisoner after he had been taken into custody, he turned round and struck mc a severe blow on the head with his stick. Constable Wilson corroborated this statement, and his Worship sentenced prisoner to six months' imprisonment on> the first charge, and three xnontbi on the second, with hard: labour.., .n ; ; -.... •: ■ ■>;. =' ■ . ... ; [Before 0. 6i Bowen,; Esq., 8.M., and '■ ..,!,. J. GJilivier, Esq., JJP.] : ■ ; -.: OF MCTBNBB. The liceuee of the Miners' Hotel, Coal Track, wae, at the request of George Bedford, transferred to Simon Mcßae.