ONEHUNGA. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. MONDAY. [Before Capt Symonds, R.M.]

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ONEHUNGA. RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. MONDAY. [ Before Capt Symonds, R.M.]

I BURGLARY. .Henry Merle mi charged by Samuel Tioklepenny, of Mangarei, with having, on the 25th initant, broken in'to hu houie and atolen wearing articles to the value of £3 1*. 6d. - >l **>'-<•>■

* Samuel ttcjdeponny, on Jbeihg>woni,; B aid : I am f reSld { ng *' Mangoroi. ? On Saturday morning lastjl left my hou«e«eoUreIy fastened/and went some distance from my home.' , _ Ellen HuBhw^gaid: I; am:jhe,wtfe>f,; James Hughes, aniS^oteiiJlawCfW 1 prorioutor, ? whose house I went to take charge of during hi* absence,On arriving at the house I found a robbery had bean committed. On going outside I saw" prisoner coming out of the cow-«hod. I followed him, ana at the same tamo I called to a man who was working for my fcon-in.law in au adjoining field! The prisoner ran.away with all possible speed. I .enttheman after him, telling him to oall at Mr. Buckland'a houie, who at onco deapatohod four mon ia search of the prisoner. John Waters, in the employment of Mr. Buokland, stated that he overtook prisoner, and took him to the Otahuhu polico-statijn. Polioe-conitable Negus depoied to- having, searched the prisoner, and finding the missing articles. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the n»xt oriminul sitting* of the Supreme Court, '