PIGEON BAY.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2551, 5 July 1871, Page 3

PIGEON BAY.

r v, MOKDAY, a'CLY : 3. ■-..... ' rWore/W-H. Pilliet,Esq.,B.M.]: kmt&g?--''* A Dwellesg-Hotjse;— * VVnite. was brought up on a.charge of

teaiing a watch from the.Pigeon Bay Hotel, on Good the said watch of- Robert-ManrorW" pnutor of the hotel. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Sergeant Ramsay produced $her warchr: Mrs Munro" s sworn — r Kjiew prisoner, who was assisting In "the hotel kitchen on Good Friday. Saw the watch hanging in the kitchen on that day. Prisoner left about four o'clock-.- Witness missed the watch after breakfast next morning. Could not swear to the watch, but swore to the .guard .of; braid. ;■ <"Kever gave prisoner permission to take the watch. When missed searched the house for it. Charles Duduit, laborer. Akaroa, called—Had been I^-« cm P 1 °yment from September 27i 18/0 to May 1871. Munro lent him a watch ra'v^V^ 1 "' m*& Identified the watch. Robert Munro, proi pnetor of Pigeon Bay Hotel, called—Remem-! bered Good a watch on that day baw the watch the night previous to rriday. Made every enquiry. Missed it •* /u^uvP ***** Wa * tow b y his wife tbat -the- watch was missing. Had lent the watch to Charles Duduit some months previous. Was certain that the watchi produced-w ; as]tSf he had lent to Charles TJuduit; "but could not identify it Believed it to be his, there being no difference in appearance ; the name and characters inside exaetlv corresponded. Had spoken -to -prisoner's '• father about the watch, and advised him to go to bis own house about the watch. Accompanied him to his son s house. Thomas White gave the watch, saying that his daughter had found it near the bridge. Witness took the watch to Akaroa and handed it to the police. David Edwards, laborer, Pigeon Bay, lodged with father. Remembered prisoner showing mm a Watch about Said she picked it up on ttie road on Good Friday. Previously, in a--chaffing-Way, she said that she had got it from "her Moses." This closed the case for the prosecution. Prisoner put no questions, and was sentenced to two months' lmprisonmemVwrth hard labor.