RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 322, 17 January 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before Mr. Mansford, R.M.) DESERTION. Henry Winstanley Smith, apprentice on board the Hermione, pleaded guilty to deserting from the ship. The master did not press the case, and prisoner was ordered on board the vessel, Mr. Maosford warning him that he was liable to twelve months' imprisonment. AIT ALLBGBD VALUBLBBS CHEQUE. Ernest Wagcer was charged with obtaining, by means of a valueless cheque, one helmet hat and £4 93 6d in money from James Smith, on 11th January, with intend to cheat and defraud. Prisoner said he did not know how his account stood at the bank. On the application of Inspector Atchison, who stated, that the prosecution were not prepared to go on with the rase at present, prisoner* was remanded till Tuesday. Mr Mansfbrd R3 id that bail would be accepted— prisoner in £20 and two sureties of £10 each. THE ROBBERY OF £265. Walter William Bacon was charged on remand with stealing £'265 in bank notes, the property of A. H. Brind, from the Anchor S.N". Co.'s office on the 6th January. Mr. Connolly appeared for the prosecution. On the case being called on, defendant, who was on bail, did not answer to his. name. Mr. Mansford asked \f anything was known of the defendant's whereabouts ? inspector Atchison replied that after being released on tbe former occasion, be was taken home by his parents. Mr. Mansford— l shall issue a warrant for him, and I shall not admit him to Uail again. Subsequently, howevor, tho defendant put in an appearance with hh father. The latter st«tcd. t^at tbe reason why the defendant had not answered to his name, was that he had been informed by tho Rev. R. Coffey that it would bo all right, providing he attended at any time between 10 and 12. Mr. Connolly applied for a remand, as tbe prosecutor was still absent from Wellington. Mr. Mansford adjourned the case till Tuesday next. He increased the hail to two sureties of £100 each, and sad that he could not again allow the father to be one of the sureties.

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