PAWNBROKING ESTABLISHMENTS IN AUCKLAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3017, 28 March 1867, Page 5

PAWNBROKING ESTABLISHMENTS IN AUCKLAND.

At the close of the business before the Police Court, yesterday ,'iMr. Commissioner OSTaughton produced to the Court I*j,rt»nch 1 *j,rt»nch warrant which b«d, been gtaoted i'ou , the previous d»y,- upon' 'the jnforjnatiion of a woman named JFanny Moore, to the e|Feqt that a gold.cross, valued at £1, had been stolen from her premises by some person or persons unknown within the last. two. months, and that she had reason to believe it was on the premises of * pawnbroker/named Maurice Marks,;pf Queen-street, Auckland., The warrant was duly executed by iJei^ctiVe "Terfaahan, who took possession of the stolen article.' 'In accordance with the 125 th.. clause -of r the Justices of the Peace ; Act passed Bth October, « J866, Mt. ComI miflsipner Naughton. produced the rfolen, property in [ Cpprfc,'fnd asked the Bench tOjde/?ide what was to be I done with it., ;BislfroT*njp directed the constable ;\o detain, 'the property m his possession. It, appeared* I tha,!; Ma>k» bad lent 2s ( 6d. op the gold cross »t/»n i inf;*erest!pj;3d.'rDef weekj being afe.jkhfrratfl pt 520 pet ! cent. f-His Worship denounced,^ inj strong. terms, the , conduct of, |^persons, receiving stolen: property. A: i person paying 25., 6i. for »n «rfcicle.talued; at] £1 j must have known that it was stolen, property. ■ It amounted to nothing, leu than & premium upon ; crime — an inducement tojpersons to steal. If there , were no, .receivers of stolen, goods there; would be in ■ all probability no . thieves. . Those pawnbrokipg. ' establishments, were a pest in , the city, . Una ,the sooner ,they. w.ere nbplished the better <- it ' would be for the inhabitants. He had no dQ.ubfc the , police \rbuld keep aj close watch over «uch; places. |He advised Mr. Marks to disgorge all the .informaI tion hfi knew about the pawning of the stolen (article. ' ' .