MAGISTERIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2250, 18 June 1881, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH. Satubday, June 18. [Before R, Westenra and J. P. Jameson, Esq*., J.P.’s J Dbtotkbnnesb. —For this offence, Jas. McDonald was fined ss.

Highway Eobbehy. Mark Kearvall pleaded guilty to robbery with violence on the person of J. W. 811. J. W. Ell, stockdealer, of Bingsland, deposed that on the night of June 16th, being in the Golden Fleece Hotel, he there saw the prisoner. About nine o'clock, after drinking a few glasses of beer, witness loft the hotel, going up Armagh street. Before he got far up the street, ho was tripped up, falling on K : s back, and a man knelt on his t o W't- He had no recollection of what banns Bed afterwards, but must have got up aclcklv and gone straight home. In the ’“ZZL V , found that some silver and a pocket-knife that had been in Ins pockele had ' The pocket on the right side of disappeared. _. *• P pilver had been, was I “ 1 h.iidkerehl.f proclv. “J, hawnaa t pß y f or a pint stated that he saw pros. , toto l shortly before of bear for prisoner mtbv Pr^e cutor nine o’clock on Thursday* « Whitley, a was the worse of liquor. carpenter, residing in Armagh k V * he that, about nine o’clock, returns ? , heard a scuffle on the right-. , of Armagh street. He heard a across made for money twice. He went a the road, and saw prisoner on the top . man. Witness inquired what they ivt doing there, when prisoner let the man up, and asked him it he was going home. The man who had been down said he would not go home with prisoner at all, as the latter had tried to rob him. By that time Mr Leaver came up, and witness asked him to shepherd the men whilst ho wont for a constable. Witness then brought Constable Simpson, who arrested the prisoner. Richard Leaver, a tailor, corroborated the evidence of the previous witness, adding that he knew Mr Ell to be the man upon whom prisoner was kneeling. Ell got away, and witness never lost sight of prisoner until his arrest. Constable Combes deposed that ha was on duty at the watohhouse on Thursday night. He searched the prisoner when he was brought there by Constable Simpson, Prisoner had in his possession the articles produced. Labobny fhom the Person.— The same prisoner was then charged with the above offence, to which he also pleaded guilty. The following evidence was taken: —John Wilson, a grocer and a Quaker, of Oxford terrace East, stated on his affirmation that at about half-past ten o’clock on the night of Wednesday, he was standing conversing with a man at the corner of Peterborough and Colombo streets. The conversation became a quarrel, and' witness took off his coat to fight. The fight, however, did not come off. At that time, witness believed, he had in his vest pocket a silver lever- watch with gold guard, which he valued at about £6. The watch and the fragments of the chain produced were the same. He had not seen the articles immediately before the altercation, but he always carried them, and now had’ no doubt they were then on his person. On'the morning of the 17th he found a broken portion of the chain attached to his vest j the other part and the watch was gone. At the time of the quarrel there were several persons standing round, but witness did not remember seeing the prisoner. Peter Brown, a fishmonger, stated that on Thursday night last he saw at the White Hart, the prisoner, who handed him the watch produced to sell for him. Witness then saw the piece of gold chain now produced in prisoner’s hand. Witness sold the watch for 10s to Mr Herman. Isaac Herman, jeweller, of High street, corroborated previous witness as to the sale of the watch. Thomas Heil, a detective officer, deposed to being at the corner of Peterborough and Colombo streets about midnight on the 15th inst. He saw prosecutor, who complained of a man named Hudson, who he said had struck him. Prisoner was with prosecutor when the latter spoke to witness. This was the whole of the evidence produced. Prisoner, who was undefended, had nothing to say, and was committed to take his trial on both charges at the next session of the Supreme Court to be held at Christchurch