LAW AND POLICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11368, 10 May 1900, Page 7

LAW AND POLICE.

] ./< p OU CE COURT NEWS. I v i Peijib and J. Letdon, J.P. b, * i : W!*a a the police Court yesterday. Sde d at ,' . Mary Richards, a n -° u offpronkenne*' dto one mont „'s hard T : . ?' 3 "-,.. ■'•. ••••'• ■ '■'■■ C • ■ 'Hbour- " Thomas Hind Toppin pleaded guilty The«; a roat valued at 15s, the property i to stealing L™ p , arld wag sentenced to one V >' S rfraS'« nd Entering: Alfred '! •' A Thomas Wilson, charged with enSI Evans an} ; «<J.. Pearl Ellis and stealing H> valued at £26, were ro- • 1 '■■ er ff,n Wednesday next. landed till," from a Dwelling: Altred Al- /:: . Alleged The with stealing ft watch and : - b= rts *"i S laf£6 ss, the property of Wil- : Hitm the house of Isabella Broad--1 ]^ W tilHam Wellf deposed that he was ford; 'lr boarding with Mrs. Bradford in ;- H**f% There accused had also boarded i . ' 'reSt two years. On Friday morning • *", « his watch hanging in his room, but ; ; : : ,;),a left nlnff-that evening found it . missing, ' 0 „ return"?^ matter to the lice He repo / fa!"! pawnbroker'.. ' He .denti/:i rf.ow'.f watch, produced, as Ins property. ;'' 'V' fied . ! Wad occasionally worn the watch. ::-) it"*" nao « stated hat her husband '* -WieKSised out of the house en -■"■■■ H d /lv owing to drunkenness. He te- :;| ....;• Wednesday, owing f« llis (>lothes - • Tolm •• ! ; - 'I'" 6 ■ n,«nhrokor, Elliott-street, deposed that * him to borrow 5s on Friday, ■f ■" *?! rSe'watch as security. Detective '-I RifS™ evidence as to the arrest, and I G £" ea was committed for trial at the Su- ' 1 of Public Money: Edwin •■ iiSi was charged on the information of : -f ''v ' .Warren, the agent of the public trus- ■■• ''''•;" „;ih dealing on January 22 and February : ! &£»''" of & and £111* W. the property of I 1 public trustee. Mr. I'olo prosecuted, •; ; ' : '" : ' AMr Dovore appeared on behalf of ao- ,'.: . jna ] '],;_ f, Warren deposed that accused ' - : 'U been a clerk in his office, and that part i r ' ; "? his duties was to rceeivo rents P ait ' at ' ■ '■ iU nffico and to enter them in a book. Tim H W„imff produced, for £4 to V. L. Davis and V . ; I £1 lis Id In 0. ™ Sanders, were in achandwriting, but neither of these : >\ MS had been lodged to the credit of tho ■i : •raiblic trustee, nor had they been entered in " ; ' .: L book or ftoonnfcd for in any way. Francis .i lias Davis, commission agent, of Dcvonport, '■•.' - A Charles William Sanders, homoeopathic "medical practitioner of Parnell, deposed to ■'"' Mving the accused tho amounts stated above, ■ ; 'ind to receiving from him the receipts pro- ' Sliced '''Accused, who reserved his defence, L committed for trial. Holloway was fur- ;■•.. " : iip, charged with stealing, on February 16, ' the sum of £17 13s. the property of the pub- ,'•': ic trustee. E. E. Warren stated that accused '■'■ ; had instructions' from him tc transfer tho j 'm in question, the balance of a deccasod ■■'< depositor's account, to the account of tllQ • •'■'"''™b!ic trustee. This had not been done. -' Luted had not accounted for the money, ■■'•■ ' and bad no authority to collect it in cash. ■'■'■ Benjamin Irwin Bollard, clerk in the Post Office Money Order Department, stated that ' : accuscti on February 16 brought him the do-; : '■• visitor's passbook and a withdrawal slip, and {bat he paid over to accused the balance of ' the account in cash. Accused did not ask j 'jo have the balance transferred to the public i trustee, hut asked to be paid in cash. Ac- ! cased was then committed for trial. The j • Bench considered the present bail sufficient.

'"•■ PAPAKURA POLICE COURT. . .V-. Tuesday, Mat 8. (Before Capt. Crawford and Mr. J. Bremner,

: Alleged Breaking end Entering: Ernest Keaber was charged with breaking and entering the dwelling of George Lindsay, Cloved* i, on .'January. 1, and stealing property to tho value of £7 lfis. Accused was committed for trial at the Supremo Court. He was also charged thai; ho stole one watch tnd 2s 6d, the property of James Edward Wilson, "of Clevedon, and was sentenced to two months' '' imprisonment.—(Own Correspondent,) V' _______