RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 7, Issue 457, 20 January 1864, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Fbidat, Jan. 15. [Before John Curling Esq., R,._l._ . Wood v. Crawford. — Claim £7 7s. od. for debt. Judgment by default for the amount and costs 13s. Knowles v. lAngard. — Claim £1 8s 9d for debt. Settled oufc of court. Howard v. Jeffares. — Breach of Impounding Ordinance in allowing two pigs to be at large in the Town of Napier. Fined 6d and costs, 4s. Curling v. Nenatt. — Breach of Militia Act in not appearing at drill. Fined 16s; and costs _s. . Kennedy v. Briglwuse. — Similar offence. Fined 10s. and costs 4s. Curling v. Baxter. — Similar offence. Fined 2s and costs -is. . Monday, January IS. 1 ■ [Before John Curling, Esq., R.M._ ifoay v. O'Hara.— Claim for debt, £3 6 6s. Judgment by default for amonnt, and costs 275. Bray v. Cracknell. — Claim for debt, £4 9s. Judgment by default and costs 13s. Bray v. Lambert— Claim for debt, £13 ls. Settled oufc of Court. Peter Coleman was brought up in custody charged with stealing five shirts and a towel the property of George Samson of the Brigantino Pilot, and also one shirt, the property of Donald Campbell of the same vessel. George Samson said, I am an ordinary seaman on board the Pilot. I arrived in Napier on the 9th inst. — About 12 o'clock last Saturday night, T missed the shirts in question ; they had been saht to me in the afternoon.by the washerwoman. — I laid them on the bed and when I came back to the vessel I missed them. I told the steward of it, and we searched everywhere, and, could not find them. I saw nothing of them until I saw them in the hands of J tlie-police, when I identified them as my property. The shirts now; in court are the shirts I lost. Donald Campbell gave similar evidence as to the> shirt which was his property. Edward Howell said. I am a policeman. About half past 12 o'clock yesterday morning I, apprehended the prisoner for being drunk. I took him to the IpcbVup^when, on searching him, I found the shirts-produced inside his blue shirt. I had suspicion, that they were stolen property, and .reported the matter to Corporal Evans. Michael 3?iriucane, another constable, corroborated the evidence as- to finding the property on the person of the prisoner. i -. Gyhe prisoner said— l- know nothing about the shirts. Ido not-feho'w how they came into my possession. When I get drunk my. head is affected. I was tinder medical treatment before I left Auckland. . T "'.*..- -' ■■ -'•"■ 7- "",■ "'-''* '-'• " . -Theprifeoner was sentenced to I ..month's imprisonment with hard labor.