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POLICE COURT.— Saturday. (Bafore T. Beckham , Esq., R.M.]

DRUNKENNESS. Richard Hayes and Bridget Hawkey were punished for drunkenness. LARCENY. John Perry, private of the 14th Regiment, was charged with stealing several shirts from an enclosure m Pitt-street. John Chambers, shoemaker, residing in Pitt-street, deposed that on Thursday evening last he had nine white shirts and some window curtains hanging on a clothes line in his yard. Later in the evening he missed seven of the shirts. (Shirt produced, and identified as one of those stolen.) Constable Ternahan deposed that about half-past 11 on Thursday night last prisoner was brought into the guard-room. Noticing that prisoner had something concealed under his clothes, witness searched and found the shirt which had been identified. Prisoner said he had bought the shirt from a soldier •f the 70th Regiment. For the defence, prisoner called John Owen, private of the 70th Regiment, who deposed that he had been in company with the prisoner when he bought three shirts from a civilian in Queen-street. The evidence of Owen was corroborated by a soldier of the 14th Regiment. Prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour. This concluded the business.

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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2829, 20 August 1866, Page 5

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POLICE COURT.—Saturday. (Bafore T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.] Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2829, 20 August 1866, Page 5

POLICE COURT.—Saturday. (Bafore T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.] Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2829, 20 August 1866, Page 5

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