THE BANWELL CHANGES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2356, 20 April 1899, Page 19

THE BANWELL CHANGES.

On Rriday last Mary Banwell, recently committed to prison for three months on a series of thefts, was further charged with the theft, on the 14th February, of four flannel shiits, valued at 16s cd. tlio property of .7. H. Carter; the theft, on the 26th November last, of 55 yards of dress material, valued at £3 15s lOd, the property of J. H. Carter; the theft, on thr 26th November last, of 18 yards of dress material, valued at 13s. the property of .Tame? Dick and another ; the theft, on the Bth inst., of a teapot, a cheese dish, a paii of bouts, and a dress piece, of the total value of 23s 6d, the property of A. and T. Inglis ; the theft, on the 31st December last, of 43 pieces of glass and chinaware. valued at £3, the property of Lo Kcong ; and the theft, on the 7th November last, of three white shirts and other articles, valued at £3 10s, the property of George Clnrk. — Mr Hanlon appeared for accused, v. lie pleaded guilty to all the charges. — Detective M'CJralh explained that the object of bringing the woman before the court again wab not lor the purpose of having her further punished, but to facilitate the return of the property to the rightful owners. — His Worship formally convicted and discharged accused.

Letters of ualurali a dtion have been ipsued to Niels OXen, gardener, Lawrence, and Gerrit Samuel Valkenburg, miner, Evanß' Flat.