Saturday. [Before T. Backham, Esq., R.M.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3056, 13 May 1867, Page 6

Saturday. [Before T. Backham, Esq., R.M.]

DRUNKENNESS. Thomas Flynn, Thomas Scarrotfc, and Thomas Connell were severally punished for drunkenness. BREA.OH OP DESTITDTE PERSONS ACT. Patrick Moylan, an overseer in Mount Eden Stockade, was charged on the previous day by Mary Sweeney with a breach of the above ordinance, by refusing to support his illegitimate child. The case was then heard, and the Bench reserved judgment. His Worship said : The Court, after careful examination and consideration of the depositions taken in this case yesterday, regrets that it cannot find sufficient to set aside the bond. Of course the Court feels that, although an old person like Mr. Martin, who professed to acb as her agent, did not display that amount of interest which he should have done in the case, the defendant must feel that he ought to give that woman another £10 note ; he must know that he had not given her the amount he ought bare given, and yet lie nhelten himself under ch»t

wretched bond, if he haa the feeling of a man he must know that £10 was a miserable sum to give to any woman in snch circumstances ; he mast know that a large amount of the £10 must have been expended in attending the woman during her confinement; and yet the defendant has the hardihood to come here in open daylight and to shelter himself under a- wretched piece of paper like that. Tho Court has no other alternative than to discharge the case. HOUSE-BREAKING AND BOBBERY. The further hearing of the charge against John Bead, John Williams, and James Gardner for breaking into the store of Mr. Stichbury, Queenstreet, and stealing therefrom various articles valued at over £60, was proceeded with. Mr. Brookfield appeared for the prosecution. Detective Ternahan deposed : On the morning of 2nd April I received information of Mr. Stiohbury's store having been broken open. The case was put into the hands of detective OHara and myself for inrestigation. We made inquiries, and endeavoured to find out the perpetrators of the robbery. On the night of the 6th of this month I went, in company with the Commissioner* of Police, detective O' tiara, and Sergeant Lipsey, to a house in Albert-street occupied by Garduer and Head. We found Gardner there. He occupied the front room. We searched that room, where we found all the articles contained in bundle No. 2, consisting oE shirts, shawls, and women's and children's boots, lace, and hose. The shawls were concealed under the bed. They are some of the things ideutitied by the prosecutor as being his property. Gardner said he got the boots from a boatman, and the shirts from a man blind of an eye named Head. We apprehended Gardner while we were searching the house. Detective OHara brought Bead into the bouse. Read pointed out the back-room as the one he occupied. We searched, that room, and found all the articles contained in bundle No. 1, consisting of ladies' kid boots, oue pair of Wellington boots, some buckskin gloves, some fishhooks, and other articles, all of which have been identified. We then apprehended Bead, and took him and Gardner to the lock-up. We then went to the prisoner Williams's house in Barrack-street. We saw Williams there. Gardner w«s with us. We told Williams that we came about some of the articles belonging to Mr. Stichbury. His wife gave up the articles contained in bundle No. 3, consisting of white blankets, white shirts, white counterpanes, some shawls, ladies' bronze boots, &c, which articles have been identified. Williams was weaiiug one of the Crimean shirts at the time. We afterwards recovered other portions of the property produced, from, different persons in town, from the information of Mrs. Finn. I received some of the shawls, boots, and shirts produced from her. 1 received another bundle of good? from Mrs. Williams subsequent to the night I searched the house. I was present in the Police Office when the three prisoners were brought before the Commissioner of Police. They were cautioned in the usual way. Gardner made a statement in the presence of the other prisoners. He said, they all three went to the place ; that Bead watched, and the other two went in ; that Williams and he took one load home to his (Gardner's) house. They came back again, and they all three went into the store ; that Bead took two blankets with him, and the others took a load each to Gardner's house. Williams divided them in three lots, a.nd he took his portion away. Bead declined to say anything, Williams said he removed the goods from Gardner's. All the articles obtained in the houses of the prisoners were identified by Mr. Stichbury. The evidence was read over, after which the three prisoners were committed for trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supremo Court. BEEACH OP MUNICIPAL POLTCB ACT.

William Wilkinson, a discharged soldier, pleaded guilty to a charge of breach of the above ordinance by using obscene language in a public thoroughfare towards Sergeant Hill, 12th Regiment. The mitigated fine of ss. aud costs was inflicted. The Court then rose.