RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 567, 6 September 1865, Page 6

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Monday. (Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.) DEUNKENNE-'S. Several drunkards were amerced yesterday in the usual penalty, or, in default, sentenced to forty-eight hours imprisonment. ASSAULTING THE I'OLICE. John Higgins, a powerful-looking man. described as a bushman, was cha-ged with assaulting Sergeant Lip-ey in thf execution of his duty. >• rgeatit Tjip*ev depo**'d that on the preceding lit, about 11 o'clock, h» was standimi bofmv ;)-<■ prisoner, who was b?i:is? searrhe t In- flic l'vk-up keeper, whe-n the pi".• r.• T -tru;'k Ii mi with hiS clenched fiit upon the riirhr ero. cau-ina a mark. The prisoner sai i tie had onl.i just arrived in town, that he iras under the influence of drink, and he hoped the Court would be lenient. His Wor.h p said that if the prisoner had onlv come to town to get drunk, he had milch better have staid away. He would order him to pay a line of (50 , or be impiisoned for one month, with hard labour. LARCENY. John Smith was charged with stealing several articles of wearing apparel, the property of Charles Schmidt, a seaman, from a coffee-stall on the Queenstreet wharf on Thursday last. Charles Schmidt said: That on Friday morning he left a bundle, containing an oil coat Talus os, a brown coat value about ss, and a handkerchief value 2s Cd, with a man named Trigg, the keeper of the coffee-stall. On Satuidny when he went for them they were gone. By the prisoner: I am in the habit of leaving parcels at Trigg's coffee-stall. John Trigg said : He was proprietor of a coflecstall on the Queen-street wharf. Witness knew the prisoner. He hid bee i stopping at the coffee-stall for the last eight or nine days. Witness knew the prosecutor. The prosecutor left .1 bundlo with witness. (Witness identified the handkerchief in which the articles were tied up.)

The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned for two months, with hard labour.

LABCEN'Y. Caroline Holdship was charged with stealing a b'-d----lick value ss, and other articles in value 17s 6d, the property of Bridget Curtis. The prosecutrix and the prisoner lived together in a house in Chancerv-Btreet, and were accustomed, it was alleged by the prisoner, to pawn each other's clothes. The prisoner in reply to the question what she had to say to the charge, at first said she was guilty, but afterwards said that the prosecutrix had " pawned " a number of articles belonging to her, and Ehe did not think she was stealing.

The prosecutrix denied that she had ever pawned anything belonging to the prisoner. Mary Ann Elcock deposed : That she knew the prisoner, who came to her and sold the articles produced in court for 10s. Witness asked the prisoner whether they belonged to her, and the prisoner replied that they belonged to her. Sergeant J. M. Clarke, deposed to apprehending the prisoner, who was wearing several of the articles produced.

Catherine Burke, deposed that the prosecutrix had sold to her a shawl for 10s. This shawl was alleged to belong to the prisoner.

His Worship said that Chancery-street might be an extraordinary place, but it did not appear that they who lived there like to have property in common. The fact that these persons made free with each' other's property did not affect the charge of larceny. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

watch kobbeby. Patrick White was charged with stealing a watch from the person of Francis Williams, coot at the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu.

Francis Williams said, that on Monday tho 21st lilt., he was in conversation with th<" prisoner nd two or three others outside the Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu. It was between eleven and twelve o'clock at night. While in conversation he missed his watch, which had been in his waistcoat pocket. All those present denied any knowledge of it. The prosecutor informed constable Negus that his watch had been stolen. Constable Negus took all tho parties to the watch-house. He searched them all. including the prisoner. He did not find the watch again. One day last week constable Negus showed me the watch (watch produced.) This is the watch which was Btolen. The value of the watch is 30s. Tho prisoner here pleaded guilty and appoaled to the merciful consideration of the Bench, on account of his previous good character. He produced his discharge from the 14th regiment, in which he was discharged as sober, honest, and well conducted. His Worship sentenced tho prisoner to six months' imprisonment with hard labor. threatening mnguaok. Kate Wclch was charged by Ellen Fit/gibbon with threatening langu i«o. r J he case was about l.eing heard when th* prosecutrix agreed to settle tiio mutter upon the defendant t puying the costß. Tuesday. Two men named John Chambcrbm, and John Anderson, were fined '203. and .osta for the above offence. A summons was granted on the application of Mr. Wynn, against Frederick John voi. Sturmer, that on the Ist day.of September, 1865, ho was guilty of writing, publishing, and causing to be printed, a false and malicious libel of and concerning one Charles Oliver Bond Davis, which said false and malicious libel was printed and published in a certain newspaper in Auckland on the said Ist day of September, 1865, LARCENY. Thomas Mahoney, alias James Murphy, was brought before his Worship, charged with feloniously stealing and taking away from the shop of Albert G-. ABcber, on the previous evening, a gold watch, valued at £45. Albert Or. Ascher, watchmaker, residing in Queenstreet, deposed : X know the prisoner by having seen him last evening, when I gave him into th» custody of constable Jackson. Between six and seven o'clock last night I was in my shop, and heard a crash of

glass. I ran into the streot, and then I perceived that the centro pane of my window had been broken. Inside my window there was a valuable stock of jewellery, &c. I missed a lnrire and handsome gold 'watch and chain. About throo or four minutes after I discovered my window was brokon, prisoner was brought into my shop. A minute or two afterwards the watch and chain wis brought to mo bv John Wright. The watch and chain now produced is my property. The watch and chain is valued at £-15. After receiving the watcn from Wright, T handed it over to Constable Jackson. John Wright deposed : I am a carpenter residing in Upper Queon-stroet. I know tho prisoner. I ■was walking down Queen-street between 6 and 7 o'clock, and when X got opposite prosecutors shop, I heard a crash of glass. T looked towards tho window, and saw the prisonor with liis hand through tho prosecutor's window. Prisoner than ran away up Wydham-street, and I followed him. I succeeded in catching him. I put my hand npon him, and ho threw down a gold watcli and chain, which I picked up. I took tho watch to tho prosecutor's shop and gave it him. Cornelius Tiyn.n, dflposod i I am ti private in the 14th regiment," now stationed in Auckland. Wlion passing 'within a few doors of prosecutor's shop, last evening, X heard a crash of glass, ar.d upon looking to see" what it was, I saw the prisoner abstracting something from the window. He then ran across the street, and I pursued him. I caught him in Wyndham-streot. He threw something out of his hand. I told him it was useless for him to resist, ns I should take him back to tho shop where he had just broken tho window. Police Constable James Jackson gave evidence as to the apprehension of the prisoner. Prisoner upon being asked by his Worship, if he had anything to Bay, replied in the negative. Prisoner was committed to take his trial at tho present sitting of the Supreme Court.