RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, Picton, Monday, July 10.

Marlborough Press, Volume VI, Issue 55, 12 July 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT, Picton, Monday, July 10.

(Before G. L. Mellisii, Esq., K.M.) Stanley v. Hewitt. Tiie defendant, was charged with having, on Friday, the 7th instant, whilst in the employment of Mr Stanley, wilfully, unlawfully, and falsely engaged herself to Sirs Beauchamp, against the Statute. Defendant pleaded Not Guilty. Mr 11. C. Stanley, on his oath, deposed that the defendant was in his employment, and on the in question she left his house and did not come back. , , , Mrs Arthur Beauchamp, on her oath, deposed: I told Mrs Stanley that the defendant offered her services to me on Friday, the 7th instant. Mrs Stanlev, on her oath, deposed that the defendant was in her house on the 6th instant. Defendant got leave from her to go out that night. She stayed nut till a quarter past ten o’clock. She came in at that hour. By the defendant: l never told you that if von stayed out so late at night, that I should lock you out. , _ , T Sarah Bentley, on her oath, deposed that I was along with the defendant, on the night in question from 7 o’clock to 11 o clock. Ihe next day 1 went with the defendant to Mrs Stanley for the defendant’s clothes. 1 know the defendant did not engage herself to Mrs Beauchamp. Judgment for £2O, with 10s. costs, or to be imprisoned in the common gaol for the space of ■> months with hard labour. The Act. by which the the defendant was convicted stales that the informant is entitled to half the penalty ; and Mr Stanley being the informant in this case, gave his half of the penalty, £lO. to the defendant.