RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before H. S. Wardell, Esq., R.M.)

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 213, 11 September 1877, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before H. S. Wardell, Esq., R.M.)

DRUNKENNESS. Joseph Hegarty was brought upon a charge of having bepn drunk and incapable. He had been found wandering about the street on the previous night in a stupid state, and being thoroughly oblivious of his home was nonsequontly locked up. It being his first offence, however, he was cautioned and discharged. SHOP-DOOIt THEFTS. A youug man, eighteen years of age, named Frederick Danoker, was charged on- remand with having on the 31st August last stoleu a pair of trousers and a vest fiom the shop of Mr. Lewis Moss, outfitter, Lnmbtb'n Quay. James Smeet, assistant salesman to* Mr. Moss, deposed that on the evening of t)ie*tlate referred to he missed a pair of trousers and vest, from tho shop door. Tlioso produced wore the same although he could see that thn tickets had been taken off from them. He knew them by the particular pattern, and being Iho only pair of trousers and vest of that color in the shop. Alfred Rose, a loJger iv Thompson's Boarding House, on Lambton Quay, deposed that the person who was staying at tho house offered the trousers and vest for sale, and lie purchased them for the sum of £1 3s Cd, giving 13 Gd cash and becomiug responsible for tho prisoners board to the extent of 10s. In his defence the prisoner stated that he hnd bought the articlo from a navvy, whom ho met in the boarding-house, and who hnd since gone to Sydney. There was a second charge ngaiust the prisoner of having stolen another pnir of trousers and vest from the shop of Messrs. Waters & Lambess, Willis-street, ou tho evening pf tho Ist September last. As in the previous case, the articles were sworn to, and it appeared they had been likewise sold for n sum below their value. Detective Farrell in speaking ns to tho arrest of the prisoner, deposed that he was mast Violent in his behaviour, and cnused him more trouble than he had experienced for some time back. Inspector Atcheson stated that the prisoner was an old offender; the coat he even had on his back having been stolen from Groytown. He, therefore, pressed for the full penalty. The prisoner was accordingly senteuced to six months' imprisonment with hnrd labor on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.