RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5294, 30 January 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Wenesday, January 29. (Before T. K. Newton, Esq., J.P., and E. Lyndon, Esq., J.P.) DRUNKENNESS. " Cohen Walker was charged with this offence. He admitted the charge, but pleaded that he had come from the country for the purpose of proceeding; .home by the Glenlora, and had got 'the' worse for drink. Fined ss. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. William Golding was charged by Constable Motley with being illegally on the premises of Henry Alley of Olive the previous evening. , Joseph Motley, the police constable at Olive, stated that on Tuesday evening, in consequence of information received, he followed the prisoner and saw him get into a paddock, and found him afterwards under a tarpaulin close to a haystack. He was intoxicated. The man, although offered employment, would not accept it, and was constantly in the habit of sleeping out at nights. The Bench was of opinion that the charge was a very serious one, arid sentenced prisoner to one month's imprisonment, with hard labor. LARCENY. Thomas Floyd and Charles Goldsmith, two boys, the former 10 years old, /were brought up charged with having stolen peaches and pears from the garden of Mr James Burness, of Tennyson-street; on Saturday last, valued at £1. The proßecution was conducted by Sergeant O'Malley. James Burness said that he .obtained - information on Saturday , that the boys had been in his garden. He saw them go across the road towards the Protestant Hall. He could identify the boy Floyd. , They had a bag full of fruit. He missed peaches and pears to the extent of about the worth of £1. They had three bags and a kit. Besides the fruit stolen, they greatly damaged and broke down the trees. ■ . Mary Weber stated that she lived at Mr Burness's. She knew the prisoners, The boy Floyd was in the garden on Saturday, but Goldsmith was outside the fence. She saw them throw a bag over the fence, and then run away. Mary Cranney deposed that the youngest ' boy, Floyd, came to her house on Saturday, and bought sixpenny worth of peaches. There were three boys. She could not swear that the boy Goldsmith was one of them. She afterwards saw Floyd in her own garden j he had climbed , over the fence. She further stated that these boys were a perfect nuisance to 1 people living in Tennyson-street in consequence of their thieving propensities. Constable Laurenson, stated that he had arrested Goldsmith ' the previous night, and found a key on him which fitted the lock of Dr. deLisle's safe, which had been stolen that day. Sergeant O'Malley asked that the boy Goldsmith might be remanded until next day, when he would have another charge to bring against him. Both Goldsmith and Floyd had previously had similar charges proved against them, for which they had been imprisoned. Both prisoners were then remanded till next day, the Bench stating that efforts should be made to put the boy Floyd into the Reformatory at Meanee. Sergeant O'Malley promised to communicate with the Reformatory authorities during the day on the subject. He added that Floyd's father was in gaol, and that his mother would have nothing to do with him. There was no other business.