POLICE COURT—Friday. [Before R C Barshow, Esq.,R.M]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5799, 29 April 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

POLICE COURT— Friday. [Before R C Barshow, Esq.,R.M]

Bitf.uu ru nil Pi wi, v\i> ihm'-iim. \ Co\srvrsr f -- lohii MeOune, who pleaded guilty to each ot the above oflences, was lined 40-i and cost-., or 14 days' detention in Mount Eden foi the foimu, and 10 .Mid costs, or .'50 days impmomcnt foi the littci L'.NRKiibii hi i> l)o(. — lolin Ionian, for not having legistered his dog this \eai, "was lined Is. and .">s (Id costs Insoltivii Lvmjl t \(1F. — \ charge of this kind against William Grace was, on the application of Mr Liishley, allow ed to he withdiawn. Cm Ruts.— Nine summonses for City Kates next appealed on the charge-sheet, but Mi Hirrop, who had ittundi d with sevei il ominous looking books, nut hem 1 ; in his place, they weie sti u- k out Ui km vn\.— John WiKon, nlm l.xLeman, stited to have arrived here in the 'Glenlora,' was brought up, on lcmand, eh.uged with stealing from the Globe Hotel, I'apakura, tifteeen £1 notes. — J'usoner pleaded not guilty. — Elizabeth Scouller, wife of Joseph Scouller, of the Globe Hotel, was sv/oi u, <uid deposed that she remcmbeied seeing the piisonei in front of the hotel bar between '■> and 10 o'clock, on the night of TlnnsiLiy, the Kith Apnl Prisoner was speaking to hoi . At 10 o'clock she closed np the doois In the bar till was £1 of change and 15 Cl notes of the Bank of Now South Wales, issued in New Zealand. There is a small loom called the bar parlour on one side of the bu\ a glass door leads into it nom the bar, and the room haa a window looking out into a passage leading to the back door. She locked the window by tho latch. When she came down-stairs on the morning of the 14th April she heard that the house had been entered in the night. She looked info the bar till and found the money gone. The latch of the window was pushed back; a knife inseited betvv i en the sashes would do that. A pane m the gkisi door was broken, and the key had been taken out of the bar side of the dooi, and brought on the other side to open it The door was found open Some of the pound of change was gone but not much. The money lost had been handed by witness to Kobeit McOiac; it was for his biothei John McCrae, and j. sistei was to call foi it Witness had hcrsolf got the notes for a cheque of Mr. Hav's on the Bank of New South. Vales, payable to John MeCiae The till was not locked. She had not sold the prisoner a bottle of sarsapanlla that evonini:. nor had one been .sold in the bar —James Haird Hay, settler, I'apakura, deposed that prisoner had been m his employment four or five weeks ; when he applied for woi k he said he was desti tute. On the Satin day picviou-s to (rood Fuday, gave him 2,">s. Witness sau him at the Railway Station, when he said he was going to town; saw him next about 11 o'clock on Monday. On the l.'ith nisrint, witness discharged him, paying him i'2 "?s °-l . the balance of wages due — Heniy llendeison, a f.vniei, lesidiug at Wanoa, deposed that he was in Papakuri on the night of tho l.'Hh Apnl About li' o'clock he went to put his hoise up at the (ilobe Hotel, and went down the passige referred to, leading to thebuk Siw the prisoner (it was the'pnsoner to tho best i f witness's belief) in the passige, close bv the window of tho bai-pailoin. t'nboiiei went down the yard also, and when he not to the coiner threw himself to the ground. He did not think piisoner was drunk, but some one who was m witness's company ha\ ing found a shilling, a match was lighted to see if theie was inyinoie money about, and prisonei, wLmku face witness now had an opportunity ot s .> ing, called then attention m a hih diunk'ii way to a tin can in the yaul, hut pu-onei did not speak as if he weie drunk. — Uobett McCrae, barman at the Globe Hotel, deposed that on the 11th of April ho hid received fifteen -Cl notes from Mrs Soouller lle-siw them in the till about seven o'clock in the evening of the 13th Api d ; about eight o'clock he went to an enteituiiment, and returned about twelve o'clock. Witness saw prisoner in the yard, also the last witness Next morning he opened the bar, shoitly after (3 o'clock, when he noticed a window of the bar-parlour door broken ; the latch of the outer window of that loom had been pushed back, and the curtains drawn down He missed a bottle of sarsapanlla, which he afterwards found outside. ni\u wheic list witness said prisonei threw Iuiiim It down. — Andrew Clarke, a constable, stationed at Onehunga, deposed that he sau piisoner on the night of the 13th Api il. 1'risoncr was .utmga&ifhe weie diunK, but witness at tho time suspected him to be' aobei H j wai ued him to go home, or he would lot k him up. Prisonoi spoke soborly, and l in away to Mi Ha> >o place. On tho moiirng of the 14th hd heard of the lobbeiy. uid went over to Mr. Hay's, a. id M nohed the piisoner. He found Ills. .'Jd on hu.i, which ho accounted fm i'lisonei sud that was all the money he had got He examined prisoner's socks, and found some clay on them sinnlai m colour to tint under the window. — Loins Foiuuier, a watchmaker in Victoiu stieet East, deposed to ha\ ing sold pnsonei a watch foi .SOs. about the ISth or l!>th April. He thought pnsonerpaid for it in silver. — Fiedenck Mich icl liioidan, landlord of the Customhouse Hotel, deposed that last Friday, the -'1st iiust., prisoner slept at his house 1 On .\iturd ly morning the prisoner was about to p iy foi something, when he pulled out a handful of notes hotii his pocket and some silvci Bj witness's advice, prisoner gave him £10 to take care of for him. He gave prisoner il'2 (i!l on two occasions), tho remainder of the money (JL"S) he gav e to Detective Giace. The notes weie Bank ot New South Wales notes.— Detective Grace deposed that he ai listed prisoner in Queen street, on the '2Md nist., on the piesent charge. Piisoner said he was not in the Fapakura township that night, and that he stayed at the pliee he had been working at. Asked him wheic he got the new suit of clothes, and w.itih and chain he had on from. \lj said he give ."{0s. for the watch and chain, 11 .'?s lid toi tho trousers and waistcoat, and ,'iOs toi the coat. lie searched pnsouei, and found (is. lOd. on him. Asked him if he had any more money, oi had given any to any one to take care ot. Pnsoner said he had not On Sunday morning got £8 fiom Riordan that prisoner had left with him —This being all the evidence, pi lsom i who had not questioned either ef the witnesses, was asked if he wished to say anything ; he answered " I was diunk that same night '" Lvrcknt OF CioriiiN'u. — The same piisoner was then chaigcd with .stealing a coat and two pair of trousers, from tho schooner ' Atlautic,' thu property of W H Candy. — William Homy Candy, a seaman belonging to the sehownci 'Atlantic,' deposed that on the night of the 8th Api il, the schooner was lying alongside the Foi tsti eet Wh.il f. At about nine o'clock ho went ashoie, leaving a new blue cloth coat and two pair of ti ousels m his bunk No one wa^onboaul Went on board again about 10 o'clock when coat ai.d trousers weie gone He ldentihcd the ai tides produced as those he lost — Geoige Cole, a servant of Mr. Hays, deposed that on the l.">th of Apnl ho b.mght one of the two pairs of tioiisers produced fiom the piuoncr for 10s , and he saw him sell the oilier pair to Pat O'Neil, anotlui woikman, toi Gs. He hc.nd prisonei b.i\ that the tiouseis did not (it him ; they weio too large — James Walktr, lesiding with his fathei at Papakui i, deposed that tho piisoner h.il sold him tho coat produced foi 1."h. This was about a week before thu troiiscis were sold to the two men. — An assistant of Mr. Coombes, clothier, said that tho co.it produced was exactly similar to one that had been sold to Mr. Candy about a month ago. — Detecthe Grace deposed that he charged prisoner with the present offence this morning, and showed him the clothes. Ho said th&y had been given to him by passengers in the 'Glenlora,' the vessel he came out in, in return for washing their clothes — Prisoner asked no questions of those witnesses, nor had he anything to say, and the char/es and depositions having been read over to him, ho was fully committed to take his trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court.

Lvkckvv ok v SiTLrrrc\irox. — Thomas Colebrook, on Ij.uI, appealed to answe: .1 chaige of stealing :i specification, value £27). Mr Hesketh, uistiiiLtcd by Mr. .1. JJ. liiisholl, acted on belnlf of tin 1 irosejutoi, and Mr. Uees defended Mi Colebrook.— Thomas H irtlcy, wiue and .spirit merchant and . i -rated waleis inauufactuiei, depo-ul that he contemplated putting up a building in Durham-street, and for that puip >so empl >yed M^r. Cameron, tho auhitect — In the middle of the witness's e\ idence, which was veiy long, an argument took place butweou counsel, and some observations weio m ule by his Worship which caused some doubt as to whether or not it was v, orth while proceeding with the case. — Ultimately Mr. Keerf completed his cross examination of the witness, and Mr. Hesketh. atter .inking one 01 two questions, said, tint after hearing the piosecutor's <-\ ideiue ml his Worship's observations, he should not call any more Witnesses. — The cas>u was then dismissed. This was all the business.