CHRISTCHURCH.
Wednesday, March 11. (Before H. R. Webb, C. EL Williams and A Scott, Eeqe., J.P.'e.) Drunkenness. — &. man who had not been convicted since 1889, was for this offence fined lOe or, in default, forty-eight hoars' imprisonment. Larceny.—William "Warner, well known to the police, pleaded guilty to stealiug a cloak, valued at £1, the property of E. A. Lingard. The accused went into the hall of St. Luke's Parsonage, and, taking the cloak from a peg, was aeeii by Mies Lingard, to whom he gave it np. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.—Ellen Parkinson, an incorrigible thief, was charged with stealing an accordeon, tea tumblers, and one teapot, valued at 15s, the property of Thomas Hoskins. The articles had been stolen from a house while the occupants were shifting, and the accused afterwards sold them for 2s. She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.—A boy aged about fourteen years, for stealing apples valued at Is :from a garden in St. Albans, was severely cautioned and discharged.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9363, 12 March 1896, Page 6
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