A NOCTURNAL VISITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1332, 9 June 1877, Page 17

A NOCTURNAL VISITOR.

ir At the City Police Qovut onSatusday': before ' Mr L N. yPatfc, JohnGately, Rooking man, khowh^t'othe Police jwaa : charged iwithT having, ,on the 31st 'May;- between ,sh*'i hours ef 3 and 4 aim., been s unlawfully .in,tha,{ dwelling : house,of ; James Scanlan, , .Great ,(Kuw street. pTh^j prosecutor, deposed that he retired to rest on the riight of the 30th nit., leaVin&'the 0 backdoor of his hotel fastened, but' nut' locked."' Between 3 and 4 r o*clock next 'morning- witness heard the prisoner. in the paaaag», without? any - boots m. Immediately after witness , had ; »1- r lowed himto .leave, he found a pair, of boots *nd went after him. Witneaa found a" neddy," ]or '"skull-cracker" (afpiece'of.rope'witK'a'stnp'^ of lead pipe), on the prisoner and the k»y of the J hotel door,' and thereupon gave ; information - to 'the, : Police.— Detective t Bain deposed that he:v 'executed . warranty produced, , He , had to - break open the prisoner's door with the '"assist- l anceof a constable, and the prisoner f did' r notjthen resut any 'further/- ■ Witness found^ the " Blung-shdt f "or, " neddy,'/? produced in.thepri-; Boner's house./ Thiaweapondiffcredsomewhafct from the one seen by Mr Scahlari, inasmuch as ° .the lead on the rope old instead df-noiwi^'^ Insflector Mallafd'etated that'Mfs Scanlaii'had written' him a note ; stating that she ; was atilll suffering fronvthel fright she received on jthia? occasion, o.f the, prisoner's nocturnal vjlsit. prisoner, who had pleaded Guilty' 'to, the charge, / was sentenced ,to six .months' imprisonment. *

.with hard labour. < ,-'.'" " ! • .'The same prisoner was further charged -with having, between 4;and 5 o'clock on tho; mornings 'of tho 31st May, been without lawful excueeon the, premises or Charles Cooper, Stafford street. The r .prisoner pleaded Not ' guilty^ — 'Oharloa 5 Cooper deposed that be had ; suspected Tfi thij' l prisoner of stealing 1 some things from his: pre-i> miaeß.T-,Gathenne Cooper, a young gjrl,!daugh-? Jter of the previous witness, deposed that, f with, another young girl, she residedat her^ father's store in. Stafford street! On thenigh't ;'of me'? 31st ult., she retired to rest between' 10' and' 11* = b'clock. Between 4 and 5' o'clock*the following morning she land the ■ servant were . awoke , by t the noise; of ft ;rpw in, the kitchen. > The doors T Were -all locked before, they retired r : to.*,reß,t.' ', They saw the prisoner standing ' at ' thsir. bedroom door. He was' going into the 'bedroom. ll They got frightened,* and he "ran away through the kitchen and out of the bsck door. They then ; hurriedly dressed,- and went to saek^ thb priso-, ner. . By this time he had reached his house and locked the, door, which wa3 just opposite ' the complainanVn back door. * They found one ' tin of salmon, one tin of aardinea, and "half -at pound of i butter missiner. - The' prisoner; had neither nor coat on at the time. — Isabella \ Watts,, servant at Mrs Cooper's store, corrobb-^ rated, the evidence of the previous witness.— ' THe prisoner "stated tha^i. owing to something ' he 'told Mr' Cooper, the girls "were determined^ to hare something against him." He wasjsen-r> tenced to six months' imprisonment, with ha^d, labour. - . . -*' 1

" The Copyright .Ootumusiou," according ' to Mayfair, * r is still engaged upon the'cheeri* fill occupation. of taking evidence, 1 ' and hag* not yet began' even to" consider how it -shall* "consider its report." The evidence "taken*, already reaches the proportion of a moderately fnll library. Upwards of £1000 has! been paid to the shorthand writers for takingnotes of the evidence " ..V

An ; English paper has, ' the . following :-ril "The Sultan is the husband of one wife, and the Sultan*^ is credibly reported fo be » Belgian, very [pretty, 5 very; clever, .and once a pupil of Madame Eliae. -It v is not' thVfirat^ time that V Western woman -lias^held the"' Padishah in'sway. The Sultan, who is somewhat of an ingenious ; youtti, ; is reported to"i hare inquired of his vnfe if she had evcVmet' Lady Salisbury. « She was no^ of, my ae^V was the reply." .\ < '. .*■*'■*.'