Police Intelligence.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 1, 2 May 1863, Page 6

Police Intelligence.

POLICE COURT, QUEENSTOWN. (Before J. Nicest Wood, Ksq.) STEAI.XVO a W*ivn.~A!*»ai.i« TLo—oU* a/uw M-Farlane, was ehargi-d with having btolen a watch, the property ofW. H. Manaford, at the Wakatip Hotel, Que*n>towu. The prosecutor, who is a storekeeper at lokomaiiiro, Ining sworn, stated that he slept at the Wakatip Hotel on the night when the robbery was co-nmitted. He laid hit clothes and watch on an upper bunk, and when he arose at eight o'clock the next mining he found the watch I sa e as he had left it on going to bed. He par- ! tialSy dressed himself, and went out to wa»h, and when he returned he missed the watch. He, 1 identified the one produced as his property which he valued at £5. Robert Campbell said he knew the pnsrner, who offered the watch for sale iu his presence. I Did not take the number of thj watch, but I believed the one then before him to I e the same. j The person who bought it took a receipt on payment of the noney. , | Furtherevidence corroborative of the foregoing facts having been taken, and the prisoner decliuing to question any of the witnesses, was sentence I to three mouths imprisonment, his worhip remarking that in passing sentence he had tak« u into consideration the seven weeks that the prisoner had been detained in custody. I A claim was put in on behalf of Mansford for his expenses, it being stated that the case had 1 cost him UO. His Worship admitted that it i was the usual practice in Victori i, whin the distance travelieJ was over 50 miles, to allow ex--1 penses, but h-« doubted whether such was the ruleinOtago. He ncoromended that a memorandum of the claim should be sent in, and he would forward it to the proper Jquarter for consideration. Sentence.—George Keeling was brought.up for sentence. The prisoner's offence was having ! stolen a pound of sugar and currants at the Saotover: when searched he was found to have in his possession deposit receipts to the amount | of some huudreds of pounds. His Woiship sentenced him to three months imprisonment with , hard labour in the common gaol of Duuedin, remarking that he was one of a gang that was the I pest of the Shotover district, ; Stealing a Pif B.—Miehael Clark was brought I up charged with bating on the 28th inst, stolen

a 'noei-3chau.il pipe, tlu pnpsrty of Alcxmler Coiley.

The prosecutor, whi is a mine-, working on the Sh itover, having been sworn. ci< p»s I th it about d ivs og > he came into Queens'Ort n, and .eft ihe pip- in question in«huge «.f his brother, who is enployed at the All Nations Hotel. He left it because the st.? : wis io »so : it is now not quite He was in the kitchen of the AH N tlons Hotel on the iiijjl.t of the 28th in*t.. about 7 o'clock, and saw detective Cullen unroll the prisoner's swa*. The first thing that fill out was the pipe. It wns at once identified by his brother, who caladhis (pr«B- - c tUntior. to it. Coud swear to it being hi* property, having had it in use for some tune, and having coven dit himseif. He never sold it or gave it avay, or autao- i e«l any one else to do so. Va ued the pipe at 20s.

The prisoner, oi beiii'» ask'd if hj? bad any question to put, said—l cloVt kiow th* mm at all; I've nothing to say to him. 1 did not take his pipe.

James Col'ev, brother of th? oris fut»", s lid he was assistmt <o»k and waiter a' the Ail Nations Hotel. He renenber-d his brother being ther-* about 7 or 8 days a*'» : be left a meerschaum i«ipe with wtne-a to take care of. Witness us d it on Sund iv las', an I did not see it subsequently, until list iiuht. when he saw it taken out of prisoner's swa* by deteeriveCu.ien. Believed it waj* pris mer's swag —i ml no* swear to it: the cook told him it was his. X-vi r sold or disposed of the pipe in any way Had seen the prisnit-r knocking a'tou* tie Ai. A't.oi's Hotel for sone time: lie use Ito co »fc i'o himself aid sleep in the con; «rt-r >»m at nig'U Did not know if p.isoier had any enp'oym nt.

1 Prisoner I only came in on Saturday nijjlit from the Shotover.

Matthew Callen, sworn, «i I he wa» a de'ecfive officer, station <1 at Qieen-t wi. lie ar rested th' prisoner last nuht on su-pici»n <i having st 1 n property in his possession. Pi is oner directed hi it where to fi:»d lnsswuir, telling him it was tied with thr-e st.-ans. He tma it in the place and in the conHsoi mentioned bv 'primmer—in tie kitchen <-f t:ie All Xto Witness undid one of the 4ra;>s, and the pn;-. dropped out in the presence ot the last t«witnesses, lie hro'wht theswaj to the camp, when it was claimed hy the prisoner as his. Tne swag was too closely hsten h\ f>y the strips to have allowed aly ou to sip th" pine ii without undoing them. Thij pipe nm t have been put in whin the wa> made up. By the prisoner.—The pipe fell out when I took the fii>t strap oft'. 1 The Pii-ioner.—l hav,' no witnesses to call vour Worship. Idi 1 not »afcj the pipe. It I had, and hid it in rav swag, it is not likely I should have sent the detective for it. I Remanded for a wjek for sentence. TnunsDW, April 30. Monaghan wa* charged hy Mr. Middlefon ' with having st jU ii a side >f ha-on, on Wed e day last, from his .store. It seems that ill • pii>oner was "sprung" a httlo. and kn.-w n thin? übout the matter. As the bac:>n could not be identified and Mr. Roes ail ot iers having spoki n to the previo is good character of ! the case was dismu-sed.