POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume XXIV, Issue 2610, 10 March 1866, Page 3

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

[Wk.DN'I'.SDAT.] (Ik'fore Thomas Beckham, E-q., R.M.) DESERTION. Thomas McLaughlin was brought up, charged with being a deserter from the Military Train, and wa.s ordered to bo handed over to the military authorities:. BREACHES OF TOLTCK ACT. William Kibblewhite, William Thomas Cook, and David Lindsay, were fined for breaches of the above Act. BREACHES OF IMPOUNDING ACT. James Casey, James Beaver, John Driver, and Henry Driver were lined for breaches of the Impounding Act. THREATENING LANGUAGE. George Mouse and Mary Ann Brown were charged by Andrew Smith with using threatening and violent language towards him, thereby putting him in bodily fear of his life. Mr. Ilesketh appeared for complainant. The Bench ordered defendants to find two sureties, of £ls each, to keep the peace and be of good behaviour towards the complainant. RECUSING DUTr. Jeremiah .Shea, seaman of the barque ' Dashing Wave,' was brought up, charged by Captain Roels with wilful disobedience of lawful commands on board that vessel on the 6th instant. The Bench ordered prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for ten dayj.

REFRACTORY SEAMAN. Juliu Anderson was charged by Captain Ross with riotous and disorderly conduct on board the ship 'Silver Eagle,' now lying in the port of Auckland. The case was adjourned until Friday. FORGERT. James Bloomfield was brought up, charged by Peter Beck with feloniously uttering a cheque on the Bank of New South Wales for £2 10s., on the 17th ult, well knowing the sum to be ferged. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Although a number of witnesses were called in the case the facts are very simple. It would seem that on the 17th February the prisoner went into the Royal Oak Hotel, at the corner of Cook and Chapelstreets, and called for a bottle of brandy, tendering in payment a cheque for £2 10s., drawn on the Bank of New South Wales in favour of James Smith, and purporting to be signed by J. 11. Burnside and Co. Mr. Beck, the landlord, believing it to be genuine, gave prisoner the change, viz.: £2 45., and he went away. Subsequently he discovered that it was a forgery, and the prisoner was afterwards apprehended. In defence, prisoner denied that he ever gave Mr Beck a cheque at all, and stated that he was in prison when this one was tendered. lie was fully committed for trial.

[Friday,] (Before .T. O'Xkii.i., Esq , J.P., Clinirm&n, and Hugh Morrow, Esq., J.l\) BREACH Or I'OLIOE ACT. James MeGuffy was fined 10s. for a breach of the above Act. CHARGE AGAINST THE CAPTAIN OF THE 'silver EAGLE.' John Ross, captain of the ' Silver Eagle,' now lying in harbour, was charged upon an information with committing a serious assault upon one of the seamen named John Sepple while the vessel was off Tiritiri. Mr, Wynn appeared on behalf of the ci ■plainant, and Mr, Beveridge fur the defendant.

A large number of witnesses were examined on both sides, and the case lasted nearly two hours. According to the plaintiff and his witnesses, he was called aft to help to loose the "crojack," but as he did not move very fast, along the deck, the chief mate struck him two or three times and knocked him down, The captain then jumped off the poop, called him a hound, and while he was lying on the deck kicked him, first violently on the private parts, and then again on the side of the head, causing the lobe of the ear to swell very considerably. Medical evidence was called to prove that injuries had been received according to these statements.

On behalf of the defendant, it was alleged, that when ordered aft, Sepple refused to go, and that when the mate [lushed him, he "squared off" at him; that the mate then struck him, upon which he drew a knife, and that the captain sprang forward and laid hands on him only to prevent him stabbing the mate. It was denied in tolu that he kicked the complainant at all. The Bench found him guilty, and ordered him to pay a line .of £5 and costs. DISOBEDIENCE TO ORDERS. John Anderson was charge by Captain of the 'Silver Eagle,' with disobedience to orders. He was fined 405., or ordered to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours. THE BURGLARV AT MR. COTTERS. The three men, Perry, Corcoran, and Goldsmith, who are in charge for burglary at Mr. Cotters (full particulars of which will be found elsewhere), were brought up and formally remanded, without the evidence being gone into. The Court then adjourned.