RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 514, 20 May 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

This Day. (Before Mr. Mansford, R.M.. and Dr. Diver, J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. Jamos Gardener was fined 5s or 24 hours' mpriaonment for this offenco. fubious jßlDiire. Daniel M'Callum, a butcher's boy, was' charged with furious riding. Ho pleaded guilty, and was fined 2s and cost*. His excuse was that be had to supply some customers by a given hour and was late. ALLBhBD PERJURY. The charge of perjury against Mr. J. G. Kinross, of .Napier, was fur thor adjourned till Tuesday noxt, at 0 o'clock a.m., when the case will ba specially heard. BTJPPORT OP PARBKTB. Jesse and William Masted were ordered to pay 7s 6d each towards the support of their aged and infirm parents. LARCENY. William Thomas Martin, alias Moore, was charged with having stolen £20, the property of H. D. Monfc, of the Post Office Hotel. Mr. Travors, who appeared for the defence, stated that bis client was willing to admit having taken about £15, but not all that was stated. ' - H. D. Monk deposed that he was landlord ' of the Post Office Hotel, and prisoner was a barman in his emply. On the night of tho 13th instant whness and Dotedive Sullivan marked a half sovereign and some shilliags, sixponces, &c. He gave prisoner 25s of the marked money to put in the till. About half-past 7 o'clock next morning he went to the bar whero prisoner was. Sullivan and others wore present, and -witness examined the till and found 27s in it. He told Sullivan that there ought to be more money in the till, and Sullivan called prisoner iuto an adjoining room and searched him. Prisonor gave up his purse, which contained some of the marked money. Prisoner said at the police station that all the mouoy in bis purse, except £10, belonged ' to witness. He also said there was 17s 6d in his bedroom which belonged to witness. Prisoner had been in witness's employ about eight weeks, and received 30s per weok as wages. The money taken out of the purse consisted of two £10 note*, two sovereigns, some silver, and a Government cheque. Witness was informed by another of his waiters on tho morning of tho 13th inst. that something was wrong in connection with prisoner. Ho had suspected prisoner for some time previously. John Corag, fisherman, deposed that on the morning of Ilia 14tli last, he went to tho Post Office Hotel and bought a bottle of Old Tom for 6?, paying for it with a half-sovereign. He was asked to do this by Detective Sullivan, who showed him that the halt-sovereign wr< marked. Witness did not recognise prisoner as the barman who serred him. Henry Sunbeam, a gentleman, of color, deposed that on tue 14th instant he was employed in the bar of the Post Office Hotel, and saw prisoner serve a man with a bottle of Old Tom. Constable Carroll deposed that on the morning when prisoner was brought to the Police Station he was prcont aud saw htm searched, rhe money produced was found in his purse. Some of the coins were marked, and prisoner said that all tho money except £10 belonged to Mr. Monk. Detective Sullivan deposed that on the 15th instant he, in Mr. Monk's presence, marked some gold and silver coins. Next morning he met a sailor near the hotel, aud sent him into the hotel for a bottle of brandy, giving him a marked half-sovereign wherewith to pay for it. He also sent Corag into the hotel with another marked half-sovereign, telling him to buy ,»• bottle of Old Tom. Having got the liquor, witness went into the hotel, and after Mr. Monk had said that there should be raoro money in the till he arrested prisoner. Several of the coins found ia prisoner's possession wore marked. Amongst other coins prisouor had in his purse tho half-sovereiga with which the Old Tom was purchased. Prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed to take his trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in two sureties of £50 each and his own recogoisanco ot £100. The same prisoner was then charged with bavingstolen a bottle of brandy, the property of H. D. Monk, on the sth May last. Mr. Travers defended the prisoner, who pleaded not guilty. If onry Sunbeam deposed tbat on the day la question he saw prisoner take a bottle of brandy off a shelf and give it to a Mr. Giles. Prisoner took fis out of the till and then dropped it in again, as if he had received it from Giles. Detective Sullivan stated that when he arrested prisoner on the previous charge the latter admitted that he had given Giles a bottle of brandy, but no money. Mr. Travers submitted that there was not sufficient evidence to show that prisoner had stolen the brandy. His Worship being of the sime opinion, dismissed the case. CHARGB OF RECEIVING 6TOLBN PROPERTY. William Giles was charged with having received a bottle of brandy from the prisoner Martin, but on the application of Superintendent James the information was withdrawn. MR. EABBY'S CABE. The case against Richard Cobden Easby for assaulting Henry Anderson, was adjourned for a fortnight, owing to the absence of two important witnesses. ▲LLBGBD ARSON. Sarah Phillip', of Kaiwarra, was charged with having, on the 11th May, 1870, unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously set fire to her dwelling-house at Kaiwarra. The Hon. P. A. Buckley defended the accused. The Insurance Companies were represented by Messrs. Board man, NancaKow, and Wallace. Daniel Marbrook, Government Inspector of Works, Jiving at Kaiwarra, deposed to the house in which accused dwelt being burned down on the 11th inst. Witness lived about two chains away. He did not see the accused near the house. Jabez Chapman, a sawyer, residing at Kaiwarra, deposed that he and some other neighbors tried to save the building, but they could not do so. On the morning of the 7th instant, about 3 o'clock, witness was aroused by Mrs. Phillips, who said, " For God's sake come out, my place is on fire !" Witness went with her, and found that the kitchen wall was on fire. The flames were not near the fireplace. He and others coon extinguished the fire. About three weeks previous to that time Mrs Phillips ran into witness's house, and said to his wife, "Mrs. Chapman, my house is on fire." Several people ran ia and found that the kitchen was on fire in the same place. Mrs. Phillips accounted for the first fire by saying that the rats must hare carried some matches into the partition. Mr. Phillips was not at homo at the time of the second and third fires. The case was proceeding when we went to press.