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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Thuusday, August 20. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) Several cases of threatening language and drunkenness were dealt with. Unsatoeal Offence.—John Westock was charged with an unnatural offence. Evidence was given substantiating the charge, and the prisoner was committed to take his trial at the next Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court, to be held in October. Labcent.—Joseph Page and Elizabeth Page were charged with stealing a smoking cap, valued at 7s. Gd., the property of J. Woodward, Curator of Intestate Estates. The prisoners pleaded not guilty, and were undefended. The following witnesses were called for the prosecution :—John Livingstone, landlord of the Victoria Hotel : I remember a person named Trainor coming to stay at my hotel. He was in bad health. On the 2/th July I took a draft for £SO to the bank for him and got it cashed. I gave him the money and he paid me £IS which he owed me. After that he was never out of my house, and he died on the Bth inst. On his death I went for the female prisoner to lay him out. There was no one but myself in his room from the time of his death until the woman came. Deceased could not have paid away any of the money without my knowledge. He was buried from my house. He had a smoking cap. I handed over his box to the Curator of Intestate Estates. Margaret Livingstone : I am the wife of the last witness. I remember the female prisoner being sent for. I had occasion to go up to Trainor'B room when she was there. She said she could not lay hirn out herself, and I went for another woman. When I came back prisoner was taking things out of deceased's box and looking at some papers. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was trying to find out Trainer's age. Deceased had a smoking cap ; the one now produced is it. He valued it very highly, as he said it had been made for him in England. He would not allow anything in his room to be moved for some time previous to his death. There were two rooms used by deceased, one for sleeping, and the other for his boxes ;. the prisoner was in the latter when I went up stairs. John Price : I am a sergeant of police. ' I went to prisoners' house at eleven o'clock on the 19th to execute a search warrant, which I read over to her. The woman said she had got a smoking cap of Trainor's, which she gave him ss. for. I then searched her clothes box and found the cap. I was going into another room, when she said,. " Oh, by the bye, here's a coat my husband bought from Trainor for ISs. the day before he left the Panama Hotel." I searched the house and found nothing more. On being asked if they wished to make any statement, the male prisoner said that he knew nothing about the cap. Deceased tune to him one day and asked him to buy a coat hiswife had to clean, because the landlord of the Panama Hotel had sent him a bill for ISs., and as he was going to live at another place, he wanted to pay it. He told him he would buy the coat, and paid him. the next day. The female prisoner stated that she used to wash for the deceased man "Trainor, and that before he died he sent for her and said, " You have been more than a mother to me, and I owe you money which I can't pay you. Is there anything I can give you instead ?" She answered yes, the smoking cap ; which he gave her. His Worship said there was no evidence to substantiate the charge, and therefore dismissed the prisoners.

A few civil cases were settled out of Court.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4187, 21 August 1874, Page 2

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RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4187, 21 August 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4187, 21 August 1874, Page 2

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