RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT NASEBY.—Sept. 30.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 35, 1 October 1869, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT NASEBY.— Sept. 30.

(Before H. ~W. IRob'ason, Esq., U.M.) Henry Stewart was charged, on the • information of Sergeant M'Nally, with feloniously stealing from the premises of Joseph Gason, carpenter, of Naseby, one tent, value 85s. Mr. Inspector Sincock prosecuted. Tbe pleaded not guilty, Joseph Gasoii,J being sworn, identified the tent as hisl property. lie rceogaised lljc mark* with which he himself had branded it,, it being t.it; only tent so branded by , him. It was last in his possession oil Friday the 24 ud. He missed it at about 8.80 p.m. of that day, when lie closed up, from the nail upon which it I was hanging under the verandah, TTads not sold it to any one. Ann Collegd wife of George Colletf. proprietor the Ancient Briton Hotel, deposed she had bought the tent in from the prisoner, who had been iug in her house, i'or 12s. had stated to her that the tent wrH worth £2, and belonged to a maiM who had aslced him to sell it, iiH order to raise a few shillings to gen away from the place. Sergeant* M'jNTally proved the arrest of the pri-1 soner on the Houndburn Hill, abouw eighteen or nineteen miles distant. 1 Tbe prisoner declared his iunoeeuce of' { the charge, and stated that, when look- , iug out for work, he had come some man who had given him the ten® for sale. George Colle+t, landlord ofl the Ancient Briton, deposed, in replfl to a question from the prisoner, the tent had beeu lying about expose® visible to any one, In reply to a tion from the Bench, this witness that the tent had been lyiug about tliH whole day exposed ; that he had bougliM it for 12s; that, hearing that a lei® had been stole u from Cason's preniiseH ; he had given information to the police® The Magistrate decided to hear flj second charge against the prisoner t before he gave judgment. I