RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 726, 15 July 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before T, W, Parkkr. Esq., R.H.] STRAY HORSE.. William Anderson, for allowing a horse to wander at large, was fined 3s. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. j James O'Neill, for being drunk and disorderly at the Railway Station on I Saturday, was fined 10s., with the option of 48 hours' imprisonment. Archey Weir was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Thames-street yesterday, and was fined 10s., with the alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment. David Wilson, charged with having been drunk and disorderly yesterday in j Lune-street, was fined 205., with the alternative of three days' imprisonment. LARCENY. Michael Kenny was charged with having, on or about the 22nd June, stolen an iron grate, the property of Mary Horn, and valued at IQ.s, Sub-Tnspeotuy Smith prosecuted. Mary Horn gaye evidence as to having known the prisoner five or six months, his wife having been employed by her, and prisoner being in the habit of coming about the premises. The grate had been lying in the back yard amongst a number of empty barrels. Prisoner was about the place on the 22nd June, about which time she missed the grate, She next saw it in prisoner's house". In reply to prisoner, witness said she had not authorised prisoner to take away any of the old things that were lying about the premises. She had never employed him at all, Prisoner acknowledged having taken the grate away, hue denied having stolen it. The prosecutrix had told him to take the things away His Worship cautioned accused, and disc' arg ■ I him. LARCIiNY AS A BAILEE. Isabella Kenny, wife of r.he last pri* soner, was charged with having stolen a lace handkerchief of the value of 155., the property of Mary Horn. Sub-Inspector Smith prosecuted. According to the evidence of the prose= cutrix, it appeared that the handkerohief had been lent to the accused for the purpose of usinir it as a pattern, from which jto make another fur the prosecutrix. On asking her on Friday last for the handJ kerchief, prisoner said that it had been rudely snatched from her hand and torn to pieces. Prosecutrix had not seen the handkerchief She had heard that the handkerchief hadj been sold, and she went to prisoner's house to inquire about it, and it was then that she saw the srrato referred to in the latter case. Jane Paul gave evidence as to the accused having, after a great deal of persuasion, sold the handkerchief to her sister for 10s. Prisoner asked them not to say anything about it, and she would make another onn like it for Mrs. Horn. Prisoner said that if the prosecutrix would allow her to do so, she would make another like it for her. I His Worship remarked that it was j rather inconvenient for both prisoner and her husband to enter upon this kind of thing at the same time. Prisoner was sentenced to 14 day's imprisonment, with hard labor.