RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 808, 7 December 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before the Hon, A. 0, Strode, R.M.)

James Brown and Robert Brunton, charged with having their horses and drays unprotected in the streets, were each fined 5s and costs. James Brown was also charged with driving a dray without having his name printed thereon, and was fined 2s 6d and costs. OB’i GENE LANGUAGE. William M ‘Pherson and Jane Mason, charged with this offence, were fined respectively 5s and 10s and costs. ASSAULT. Jane Sherwin, charged with this offence, was fined 40s and costs. DESERTION. Victor Bennett, Andrew Sherman, and Joseph Austin, charged on the information of William R. Yuli with desertion from the schooner Sarah Pile, were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, with hard labor. WHOLESALE ROBBERY. John Larner (on remand) charged with stealing eleven silk dresses and other articles valued at £2OO. The property consisted of innumerable parcels, bags and boxes, and occupied a considerable space of the Court. The prisoner was defended by Mr Howarth. Daniel Haynes, sworn, said—l am a member of the firm of the firm of Herbert, Haynes and Co., drapers in this city. The prisoner was in our employ as assistant salesman sinces the 26th October. On Monday, the 4th inst., from information I received, I called the prisoner into a private room, and accused him with having a length of silk concealed on his person. After a slight hesitation he admitted it, and produced from beneath his vest a roll of about 27 yards of black silk of the value of £7 17s. A constable was sent for, and the prisoner was given in charge. Later in the day in company with Detective Weale I proceeded to the shop of Mr Davies, pawnbroker in Princes-st, and was there shown a parcel numbered 577, which contained a quantity of silks, &c., which I identified as my property.

Constable Quin deposed to the arrest of the prisoner, who when cautioned said, “ There’s no use denying it, as I am guilty,” and asked to be forgiven. The constable produced a piece of black silk, which he identified as being that given to him by Mr Haynes, who said it had been obtained from the prisoner. E. H. Daniel Haynes’ evidence continued—The Camelion silk dress now produced I identify by numerous marks, but more especially by our private mark written by myself, the other four pieces of silk I identify and the remainder of the of the goods in the lot 577 as being of a similar pattern as I had in stock. None of these were ever purchased by the prisoner, but in his occupation he had access to them. Also lot 375, containing one purse, two pairs lace stockings, one lot of lace handkerchiefs, one sable boa, and one'pair cuff's. The purse I identify, it having

our private mark ; the others from being a similar pattern to goods in stock. The goods contained in lot No. 450, consisting chiefly of silks and shawls, I identify by similar means. The chest numbered 1, containing a variety of goods, ranging from silks to pins, I identify in a similar maimer.

Cross-examined by Mr Howarth—When goods are sold for cash, merely a slip of paper with the amount written thereon is handed to the cashier, but no record of the class of goods sold is kept. The prisoner could have effected a purchase of goods through a second party without my knowledge. Thomas Perry and David Kirk, salesmen in the employ of Herbert Haynes, and Co., identified certain silks and prints as similar to articles in their stock.

Mrs Mary Ann Armstrong deposed to having on different occasions received as presents from the prisoner several articles of drapery, &e. Constable Quins stated that, after the arrest of the prisoner, he, in company with Mr Herbert, proceeded to the prisoner’s house in a right-of-way off Maclaggan street, where ho found the two chests numbered respectively 1 and 2, and in the chest numbered 1 a pocketbook, now produced, containing ten one-pound notes and a number of pawnbroker’s tickets in the name of John Linton. He also found tho six wrappers now produced. Detective Weale deposed to having received a number of pledges from Mr Davies the pawnbroker, who identified the prisoner as the party who pledged the goods. The prisoner reserved his defence and was further remanded till to-morrow, when a charge of stealing goods while in the employ of Messrs Alcorn and Kerr will be heard.