POLICE COURT.—Thuesday.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2468, 22 December 1871, Page 3

POLICE COURT.—Thuesday.

[Before His 'Worship the Mayor, and L. D. Nathan, .Esq.] Drunkenness.—Three persons were punished as usual for this offence j and W. 1L Pooley, for being disorderly as well, was fined 20s. and costs, or 4S hours' imprisonment. Breach of Municipal Couporatiox Act. — truneis Pascie, for allowing a goat to stray, w,is fined os. and cusls. —James Maxwell, for leaving his cart unattended, without chaining wheel, was Gued us. aud costs.—Peter iirown, for a like olTence, was similarly dealt with.— Henry Shaler was charged with not keeping a hoarding, erected by him in Barrack-street, suflicieutly lighted, on the night of the lOt'u Dec-ember. Defendant, said he hud engaged a person to light a candle, which had afterwards been stolen. Sergeant Walker corroborated this statement, and the case was dismissed. Lahcesy. —Alexander Limb was charged with stealing a ccat, value 15s, from the Temperance Hotel, the properly of Thomas Slater. Mr. Bennett appeared for the prisoner. Thomas Slater deposed that, on last Friday evening, he missed a coat from a peg in the passage. Tlie coat produced was the one. Detective Ternahau d.posed that, >.-.u the 15th inslanl, he searched the prisoner's house. He found tho coat concealed in a cupboard. Prisoner told him he had bouglitthe coat twelro months previously. Detective Jefl'ery corroborated the above evidence. Prisoner was then charged with stealing a waterproof coat, value 15s, the properly of John Thompson. The evidence was the same as in the last case. Mr. Bennett said that there wus no proof that prisoner had committed a felony. Xo doubt the goods had been found in his possession, but it was wed known that lie kept an old clothes shop, and there was nothing in the evidence to connect him with the larceny. Tho Bench thought there was no procf to connect the prisoner with the theft, aud that the charge should have been £or receiving stolen property. Case dismissed.— James Millao was charged by Henry tiehmidt with stealing, on or about the 14th certain goods, to wit one box gloss waiv, and aqumtity of other valuables enumerated, to the value of £13. Mr. Kees appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Joy for the defence. Henry Schmidt deposed: I know the boxes produced, they are my property. The goods now shown me are my property —clock, silver watch, cold chain, &c. They are worth about £13. The clothes in one box are all mine. The other box is full of cooking utensik I lefc Auckland on the 12th September, and went to Uhristchurcli. I left the boxes with Mr. Johnson, of Wakefieldutreet, and the watch and chain with Mason, the hair-dresser. The other things were in the boxes. I returned on the 17th of last month. I made enquiries about my property, as I could not find ii, where I left it. I found the articles in prisoner's house at Tura.ru. Detective Murphy was with me. The boxes had been emptied of their contents. I know that my wife is living with prisoner now. They were living in the Bime house where I recovered the goods. I saw prisoner preriously, in the house of Mrs. Imndors, where I had gone with a constable to look far my wife. Mrs. Landers denied that she was there. My wife then came out of a room where she had been hidden. As I was going away prisoner said, " It's a good thing you have protection, or I'd give you something." Kothing was said about the goods. I then took out a search warrant and one to arrest prisoner. To Mr. Joy : In last Juiy I was living in Elliott-street. My wife was there also in the begiLning of the month. The information is laid for on or about the 4th November. It was not laid on my own knowledge, but from what other people told me, as I was absent ac the time. In July my wife went away from me for the good of her health. At that time tho watch produced was in th:i house. I bought it from mj wife before our marriage. She then had children by another husband. I think ehe took the watch with her when she left, in July. I did not look in the box to see. That box is still missing. About four weeks before I went to Canterbury I took tue boxes to Wakefield-street and store! them with a man named Johuson. Two months before, my wife had left me for her health. When the boxes were taken from Wukcii dd-street, that which contained the watcli was also taken, but I cannot say whether it was in it at the time. At this stage of the proceedings, to suit the convenience of the Bench, the case was adjourned t'll next day, prisoner's bail being enlarged.