RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 951, 6 May 1879, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

THIS DAY, (Before T. W. Parker, Esq,, R.M.) ILLEGALLY ON THE PEMISES, John Smith was oharged with having, early on the morning of the sth instant, been illegally on the premises of Michael Angelo Jones, Wharf-street. Michael Angelo Jones deposed : I am a musician, residing in Oamaru. I was at home on the night of the 4th instant. *E went to bed about a quarter to 12 o'clock. I was awoke between half-past 12 and one o'clock by a noise as if the front door had been broken in. I got up, and went outside, and round to the back of the hqqgg. I «jaw the prisoner lying behind tifi'e "safe/ ~i 'hpjlfe}." pase under tjie • back' window;" ' flf" ogether, and when I saw it in the inorn- 1

ing it was broken. I saw that a saucepan had been taken out of the safe at the back of the house. The noise that awoke me was like the noise that would be caused by breaking the pianoforte case. I held an axe over the accused, and asked him if he would come along quietly. He said, " All right, boss." He seemed to be the worse for drink. He got up, and I took him by the collar and wrist and led him. to the bottom of Wharf-street, where he seemed to become sober all at once, and broke away from me and escaped. I followed him and saw him go to an outhouse belonging to Mr. Cunningham. I left him there, and afterwards gave information to the police. I saw the accused last night fit the Commercial Hotel, and recognised him. Accused pleaded that he was drunk, and did not know anything of the occurrence. His "Worship sentenced prisoner to nine months' imprisonment with hard labor.