CITY POLICE COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 6262, 11 April 1883, Page 4

CITY POLICE COURT.

Tuesday, Apbil 10. (Before Is. H. Carew, Esq., R.M.) Passing Countbefeit Bank Notes.— ln the caseof Jfybert Farmer, the following evidence was (riven after we wept to press last eveningßarbara M'Cormick, barmaid at the Globe Hotel, deposed: On Saturday, the 24th March, while I was attending to the (mu', about half-past nine in the evening, a man came to the passage window opening into the bar and asked for one drink and a bottled spirits. Igave them to him. He cave me »Tisnote, and I took it upstairs to Mrs Diamond, who handed me back L 4 14s ’ fid, aridT’g&ve it as change to the man, who then left. Tbe accused is the man I refer to. I identified him at the police yard from among five other men. To Mr Catamore: I beUevft that the accused is the man from whom I received the L 5 note, but 1 won’t ’aweair to it. To His Worship: I don’t 1 think I have any doubt in my mind that the accused is the .person X refer to.-rGeorge Fowell, a teller in the Bank of New South Wales, Dunedin, said: On the 27th March Mrs Diamond’s, son paid money into Mrs Diamond’s account at the Bank. With the money was included what purported to be a Union Bank pf Australia L 5 note. I examined it, did hot feel quite certain about it, and passed it, thftn£h it seemed suspicions to me. I was telling all that day, and tbe note was tha only one I saw occasion to examine. The note was sent to the Union BankfWhen it was found to be a forgery. The note produced (No* U24,470) is the one I refer to; I am qnite positive this is the note. I gave it to Detective Bain after it was returned from the Union Bank.—At this stage the further hearing of tbq case was adjourned till Thursday, so that Mrs Diamond and ar other witness should be called. Bail was refused. Stealing a Swag,— Henry Ball , a laborer, was charged “with having stolen a swag valued at L 3 10s, lhh property of a seaman named Alexander-Watt.—Prosecutor stated that on Saturday, the 31st March, he left his swag at Fbilp’s Terminus Hotel, and on going for it on the following Tuesday found that accused, had .taken it away. Subsequently the accused took the SWag back, but a number of the hrtfcles were missing, and when prosecutor saw accused about it the latter offered to pay him for the missing articles.' Prosecutor accepted the uffer, which accused failed to l fnffiV-“Accused admitted taking the swag, but stated to the Bench that he had been to|.<jl J)y „twp sailors, who had afterwards mipped,, fojr. Home, ; to do so.—The case was adjourned until Thursday to enable accused to procure the attendance of two witnesses, 1