RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1887, 3 May 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Chbistchuech —May 1. [Before C. C. Bowen, Esq., B.M.] LABCENY. Henry George White, in custody, was charged with the above offence. Detective Feast, sworn —I saw prisoner at the Halswell yesterday. I told him I wanted to search his Bwag for a watch stolen from Beattie's Hotel on the nighr of the 22nd, or the morning of the 23rd. He said he knew nothing at all about the watch ; he had only

taken a £5 note, and no had returned iV v of it, and l>o thought k was a )l ri P i J\ Us In* had promised tl.e man to i \. CCaii « if ho it g h,m fil the 23rd prisoner eumo into the W of house and changed » ,f- t noto p?"\Y stopped «t my homo th.il nl>ht man slept in the. saino room as ho ( Jjj -5 man when he c.imo down Bu jd eomcboihl ? taken a £5 noto out. of hi. pocket tH prisoner came down I. took him into a and accused him of stealing a£3 noto tTu him if he did not. givo it U p I would Uxu\to .he police elation, and that if ho (IIT would say nothinp about it. Prisoner «,i IV would givo mo all he Imd pot, iMIO 3 tt° had spent tho rest. I took the mono,"? gave it to tlie other man, who was presoat Prisoner mado no defence.. His Wordhip sentenced prisoner to sir months' imprisonment with hard labor J marking that it was a very treacheroue calo EMBEZZLEMENT. Archibald MoFarlano waa brought un * custody charged with thn abovo offence ft J3 on tho application of the police was remand*? to tho sth instant, when several other charmagainst tho prisoner will bo proceeded with