LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9141, 24 August 1888, Page 3

LA W AND POLICE.

R.M. COURT.—

[Before Messrs. J. P. King and H. Wilding, J.P.'s.] Undefended Cases. —In the following undefended cases judgment was given for the plaintiffs:—L. D. Nathan and Co. v. Donaldson and Bishop, £18 Is 6d, costs £2 7s ; A. Wright v. L. S. Maxwell, £2 10s, costs £1 0s 6d ; A. Wright v. E. Hales, £7 12s 9d, costs £1 12s ; R. Stow v. J. Hubbard, £5 ss, costs £1 12s ; G. Kent v. M. H. Frost, £1 0s 6d, costs 7s ; R. T. Michaels v. H. Ellis, £1, costs 6s; H. J. Riordan v. J. Ward, £6 10s, costs 10s ; W. and G. Winstone v. W. F. Porter, £15 Is lid, costs £3 2s ; Official Assignee in Bankruptcy v. W. Howell, £2 Is, costs 16s 6d; W. H. Young v. F. E. Rosser, £12 13s lOd, costs £2 Is ; R. Forgie v. J. W. Rix, £1 9s Bd, costs 6s ; E. Bluck v. W. Brown, 10s Id, costs 9s ; J. Sperrey (Property Tax Commissioner) v. C. E. Cooke, £6 16s 4d, costs 18s ; J. Sperrey v. D. F. Evans (as agent for Wm. Kewley), 16s 3d, costs 6s ; J. Sperrey v. C. E. Madden (as executor), £2 10s sd, costs 6s ; J. Sperrey v. W. A. Marflitt, £1 8s Bd, costs 6s ; J. Sperrey v. J. C. McCormick, 10s lOd, costs 6s; J. Sperrey v. E. McKeown, £9 13s 7d, costs lis ; J. Sperrey v. J. B. Graham (as agent), 38 7d, costs 6s ; J. Sperrey v. G. R. Reid, 14s sd, costs 6s ; J. Sperrey v. F. E. Rosser, £1 7s Id, costs 6s; J. Sperrey v. J. Tobias, £1 7s 6d, costs 6s; J. Sperrey V. E. Warmoll, 18s 4d, costs 13s. A. Buckland v. R. S. Sandall. —Claim £8 14s, balance of an account. Mr. W. F. Buckland appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Clendon for the defendant. Judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costs £1 lis. POLICE COURT— Thursday. [Before Messrs. J. Gordon and J. Newman, J.P.'s] Drunkenness. — Two were punished for drunkenness. Damage to Property.—Reuben Arthur Saunders, George Richard Saunders, and Harold McKenzie, three boys who had been convicted of damaging a survey benchmark, value £1 13s 6d, the property of the Devonport Borough Council, were again before the Court. The fathers of the boys now pleaded that they could not pay the damage in the time granted to them, and the Bench now extended the time to two months. Embezzlement.—Henry Barnaby a young man, was charged with having, whilst in the employment of John Lumpkin, at Newmarket, embezzled the sum of £2, paid to him by Mrs. Garrett. Sergeant-Major Pratt pointed out that the police had had no time to gather evidence in the case, and he applied for a remand for a week. The prisoner asked that bail be granted him. Sergeant-Major Pratt believed there were other charges of a similar nature pending against Barnaby, and he asked that the bail be substantial. After some discussion bail was allowed in two sureties of £100 each, and the case was remanded till Saturday. PUKEKOHE R.M. COURT. Tuesday, August 21, 1888. [Before Messrs. W. T. Wright, Roulstone, Harris, and J. H. Wright, J.P.'s.] Larceny.—A respectable-looking young man, who I hear is in receipt of remittance occasionally from England, was before the Court on the above charge. The case was as follows :—Mr. T. M. Bowring, who resides near Rangiriri, left his house, which consists of three rooms, on Sunday, the 12th of August, to visit a neighbour, about two or three miles distant. The occupants of this place were Messrs. Collins and Prentiss. . About three o'clock p.m. Prentiss left the house, with the intention, as he asserted, to go to Rangiriri. Bowring stopped with his friend till the next morning, when he returned home, and found some person had entered his house in his absence, and abstracted from his desk in the bedroom the sum of £7. His suspicions fell on Prentiss, and he immediately telegraphed to Constable Hutchinson, at Mercer, who on receipt of the telegram, went to Bowriiig's place, and in company with that gentleman went to seek up Prentiss, whom they found a short distance away. They accused him of the theft. He denied it at first, but after a while he confessed to taking the money, which was all obtained, with the exception of £1 4s. There were several witnesses examined, when their depositions were read over and duly signed. The accused, Edward Prentiss, reserved his defence. The prisoner was committed to stand his trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, to be held at Auckland on September 3 next. Assault : W. J. Costello v. W. Smith. —In this case it seems that Smith, who is working for Mr. Beloe, went by order of his master to Costello's house to fetch a dog of his that he knew to be there. Ho arrived at Costello's about seven or eight o'clock, in company with a young man named McGrath. On calling Costello outside high words arose over the dog, which Costello would not give up. Smith then turned on his heel to go away, when Costello grasped a riding whip that Smith held in his hand, and a tussle for supremacy ensued, in course of which the alleged assault took place. A cross-action was brought by Smith against Costello, who swore positively that Costello struck him. The Bench, after hearing the witnesses, dismissed both the charges, each party to pay their own costs.

Costello v. McGrath.—This case was settled out of Court.

Civil Case.—Pulleng v. MoMahon.— Claim, t'6, for board and residence. In this action the plaintiff was non-suited, with costs.

This was all the business, the Court standing adjourned till Thursday, the J.3thof September.[Own Correspondent.]