MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1568, 21 December 1865, Page 3

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

CHRISTCHUBCH.

"WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20.

(Before C. C. Bowen, Esq.,^R.M.)

liaae Butterfield, an old offender, who has frequently made his appearance before the Bench, WOliain Donald, and John Hennessey, were charged with having been drunk and disorderly. PntWfoM, who had been released on bail, was fined £1. Donald called a witness, who endeavoured to disprove the charge against him, but unsuccessfully, and he was fined 10s. Hennessey was proved to have made a disturbance at the theatre, whence he was ejected by the doorkeepers. Constable Hams, after cautioning him in vain, conveyed him to the lock-up. He was fined 10s.

Mary Whitbrook was brought up on a charge of larceny. Mr. Harper appeared for the prisoner. Constable Feast stated that, having obtained a search warrant, he went to the house of the prisoner, in St. Asaph street, Christ-church. TTct read the warrant to her, and searched the He found the articles produced. Sirs, went with him, and identified the articles as being her property; they consisted of wearing apparel, &c. The prisoner asserted that she brought the things from Germany, of which country she is a native. Christina Mankhe, the wife of the former landlord of the Royal Oak, stated that the prisoner was formerly a servant at the hotel. She lived there for a few months, leaving in July last Witness missed some articles, amongst others, a diamond ring; a roll of stuff was missing at the same time. [Witness identified the articles in court.] She had made some of the things herself, and knew her own work. Some of the nil of stuff had been made up into shirts since it was taken from the hotel. The sheets produced were the property of witness, who had never given th«n the to prisoner; the value was about £1. By Hr. Harper: I was a fellow-servant with the prisoner before I married. I owe the prisoner the balance of her wages. My husband is an insolvent. The goods belonged to my husband beiore my marriage, but I consider them mine now. Mr. Harper contended that there had been no sufficient identification of the property. Mary Kisely, a woman residing near the house of the prisoner, deposed that she saw her making up theshirts out of theroU of stuff; she was also cutting up the sheets to some articles out of them. Witness and the prisoner lived together at the hotel as fell°wMirvants. The things were not marked, lhere had been no quarrel between them. His Worship the case, and the prisoner, who had an infant in her arms, left the court. The things m dispute were ordered to be given up to her.