POLICE COURT.—Thursday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXX, Issue 5434, 22 January 1875, Page 1 (Supplement)

POLICE COURT.— Thursday. [Before T homas Beckham, Esq., R.M.]

Al-LEGKD 'JlIlEFT OF A GOLD WATCH.— Samuel Gresbam, charged with itpaling » gold watch and chain, worth £5, the pro* perty of Ilrnry Gardner, at Auckland, on the 30tU January, was remanded till next dsy.

Stealing Money from a Widow.— Edward O. Martia was charged with s'ealmg £14 in money, (he property of Maria Marriage, on tbo 19th January, at Auckland — Maria Marriage, a widow, residing near the Noithern Club, said that prisoner was her son in law, an;l lived in her houtr. I'cfcween the 15rh and 20ih of last month, bin 1 give him a Post-office order for £10 to get cashed, lie cabbed the order and put the money into a chest of drawers in his wife's bedroom. She gave him £2 to put vuth the two £5 not«"«(, and afterwardt added another £2. The money was «afe about ten flays away. On the 19th instant she found the money was gone. The prisoner did not return home that nig^t, and she had not seen him since till he was in charge of the police. Prisoner was not authorised to take the money, and nobody else could have taken it. — The prisoner here acknowledged that he took the money, but said there wm only £13 — Detective Geo go Jeffrey depoRedthat ho arrested the prisoner on the 20th inst. on board the brig ' Derwent, 1 off Kangitoto Reef, bound for Newcastle, Ne.v 8outh Wales. At lhafc the prisoner said he knew nothing abonfc the matter. The captain handed to Jeffrey a £5 note and half-a-crown that prisoner had paid as discount on the note, hew? the amount of his passage money. The prisoner gave him another £5 note, ore sovereign, three half-soveteigBs, and 8 1 Gl in silwr, saying thit wsi all the mcinpy he had. On coining ashore he gave up six ponny woith of copper?, and said he had >-p nt on'y one shilling on shore, and that i-13 was all the money he took. — The priHoncr, having been duly cautioned, made a statement in which he* denied that be bad any intention of robbing his mother in-law, at he would have returned the money when he got into work in Sydney. He said he had always borno a good character, aud had never been unsteady. — The prisoner was committed for trial at the Supreme Court.

A Nkoleci'kd Child. — William H. T. WoocIb, wa-i charged with being a nepleo clulii, havmt» no proper guardianship. — Mr. Kroham applied to have him sent to the naval training ship, but Mr. Beckham re« fused to cfimmit him, as he had been inBtrncbed by Government to send no more without their sanction. The boy IB to bo brought up again, Mr. Broham stating, that it was a m^Bt urgent case, and Mr. Beckham having promisrd meanwhile to telegraph for advico in the matter. Education K \tks. — Frederick Hildobrand Thomas B Gihbs, and William Thompson, wore Buiainoned for the nou-p»yment of 10s, Education iAtc. No appearance w»s made by defiii'lants. The cases were proved on the testimony of C. L. Perry, rate collector in the Waikato distiiut, and K. B. Lusk, receiver of lates under the Education Act. — Defendants were oidcred to piy the original demand, together with costn, altogether £3 8s. 21., m each case.— Three other similar cases wuio withdrawn.