RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 260, 20 October 1862, Page 6

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

BESIDEN^ MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Satubdat, 18th October. (BeforeA. C. Strode, Efq;,]!,^.^

DntTNKKNNKSs.—Wm. Grundy arid Thomas Armstrong were fined 20s eacli and ; costs for beins drunk; in default of payment, to be imprisoned 48 hours.i <::,..: '■■■: :■■■■ -. ,':■ ...'•• .■" ...... -- ' "■' : :

T -DE5EKTitfa aChilb.—A little boy named William Harris was placed .before the Court. Constable Foster said that the cliiW was brought to the station y.es.terdayas destitute. His iatJier, Edward Harris", went'away to thetligginjrs three montlmngo, havin« lpffc the child fn charge of a neighbour. He promised' to return in ten days, but, r he hafl nobbe?n henrd of, and the woman had sent the child to the Immigrant Barracks, stating that she conld not raaiutain 0 him longer., The father bad two drays, and was <-arryin" to the Dunstan. The Ma«r:strate directed that, an mioi-raation for deserting the child should be laid against the. father, and said that he' would make arrangements for the child being cared for temporarily, ■■■:•• ■ ; ■-.... .-. :..:, i[ : V^'. ... . \/; "! Usijsg Abusive Lanpoaob.—Lqrandp Johns was fined 10s and costs, for using abusive language ia the Ar'atlc. '.'.:■ ■-;:: .-;.■;

Robbery prom the Person.—John M 'Derraott was charged with stealing £4 from James Williams, master mariner, of Wnikoiiaiti. Detfejivj TuckweU conductor] the case.: The prosecutor's story was, that having crone to the Prince of Wales Hotel, on Friday, to dine, he got ini,o conversation with the .prisoner and twoother?, and invited them to dine with him. Afterwards he'gave the landlady a £5 note to pay for the four dinners and a bottle of sherry. He had received the note during the forenoon from the Commissioner of Police, it having been lost a while a^o, and recovered ..by i?ie police. The, landlady gave hun three £1 note?, two halt sovereigns, and some silver,; which the prisoner saw him put into his right-: hand, wais coat pocket. An hour afterwards, he went into a small room, and. was followed by the prisoner, who took a seat on the opptsite sjtie of the table. The prisoner leaned across the. table, and he (the prosecutor) felt a sharp pull at his pbcketV He found that the notes and : hTilf-sov^reigns were pone, and he chargetl, the prisoner y/ithr stealing ' there.' The prisoner denied the theft/ and went into the yard. = •,;•/.,' : -;.■• ■■. y, ■■ ..■'.■<:. .;. ■,„.; "'■; ■•: '■■:.^.-y i ,

; Mrs Dans, tile landlady,. contradicted the proceeutor's stQ-y in several points; but proved that she gave himj as cba>ige, thu notes and half sovereign. He was tips}',—not s>o drunk as not to know what he was about. :; ■■';■.:.•. :. ■•.,• t•• •. ...':. ' >-. : :; ' ; : IDetective Howard said.thaf he was called into the Prince of Wales'llo^l, aiidtold ofthe robbery. He found the prisoner in a water-closet at "tne rear,; say that he was stooping, a*id noticed somotliinp- iv; his hand.-: Grasping the. hand, he, %vith difficulty, get it open, and discovered some mud in, it. He returned to the closet, and, in'a.;c.reyfce ; .of'^iie.floor, .he found three notes and two halfsbvereigns-rthe" opening b(iing partially, plastered, over .with mud, like that .which was in the prisoner's liahrl,; -At'the station,; in answer to theprbsecutor, the piisonpr said tliat he did not take the mo'tj'ey, but he knew vvhb' difl. "When he made the complaint, tlie prosecutor said that the lost money consisted pf three £1 ndte3 and;tw6 half-sovereigns. ';■;*.. ;'"'.'-■'.<' The, prisoner, who said he wpiild res-rye his defence, was committed for trial at the next^'sitting: of the .Supreme Court.;.but, subiequently; he asked to be iailpwed.to plead guilty, and; was committed to hard IaVJQr for four months. 7'• ;' / ; ; :

Chaugb against SRAiurßN.—Samuel Monison', Jno. Carrollj aud Wm, Kelson, were charged with embezzling a portion of the cargo of tli& bri^antuie Raven, on board which vessel they were sailors. Nelson was discharged ; aadthe-others, were committed ?to hard labor for two months. <:■■', '• : ■■:■::