RESIDENT MAGISTBATE'S CODBT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 29, 7 March 1884, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTBATE'S CODBT.

TIMARtf— TnuiwDAY, Mahch 9. (Before T. W. Hall, Esq., J.P.) DBCHKBSKES3. George Barker and Jsmei Thomas, chsrgfd with being drunk m a publio place, were fined 6s each, m default 24.;hour»' imprisonment, LABOBsnr. Charles doddard was charged on remand with fraudulently converting to hii own vie a £5 and £1 notes on the 28 rd February, the property of G. E. Angle;. Inspector Brobam cotidncted the proiocation. The prisoner inn undefended. The fallowing etidenoe win taken : — Gilbert Edward Anslty, licemee of tbe Sbamrook Hotel, depoied : I know arcuaed. He was boarding at my hotel for two days previous to the 23rd February. On that day I gave him a £5 note on the Union Bank of Australia snd a. 1 note on the Bank of Hew Zealand, to get change for me. I aiked him (to get fire tingle notes for the £6 note and a pound'! worth of silver for the £1 note, and not to be long, as the dinner bell was jaiit going to ring. Ihe bell generally rings about half-paat twelve o'clock. I did not tee him again till Tuesday lait, when I saw him m custody. I never gave him any authority to keep this money. He was quite sober at the time. 3-tcob Levien, cordial manufacturer, said : I know aocused. I raw bio between twelve and one o'clook m tbe day of tbe 23r<) of last month. 1 met him at tbe door of the Olub Hotel. He asked me to go m and hare a drink. 1 did so. He tendered m psymeut •£6 noto tt flrit, but the Um*n not bating

change, the accused then gave him a £1 note for wbioh he got change. He waa sober at the time. Austin Kirby, detective officer of police stationed at Timtra, e;iid : In consequence oi a complaint made to me by tha first witnest on the 23rd February, I went m search o accused. I ascertained he had left that daj by the mid-day express train for Dunedin. A warrunt was afterwards issued for him on the present charge. He vras arrested m Oamaru, Gilbert E. Ansley, recalled, m answer to the prisoner, said : G'n thu Friday night I had some drinks atang with you. This waa all thu evidence, Mid after the uiuul charge had been read over to him, tbe accused made thn following utatement : — Ausley csme into my bedroom on the Friday night, and as I was vriting some letters, I borrowed a pen and ink from him. He said to me, " Old man, go to bed ; you ore too drunk ; you will ntiver be able to finish half a letter." I had £7 13j that evening at four o'clock, what I clenred off the ship with. On the Saturday morning when I got. up all that I had left was ]Oi out of the _7 13s, after stopping two d»Tf. A went to the bar for a glass of beer, and there wore three or four men gambling for money on the counter. I wont away, and on my returning the barman said to me, " Corns on, I will have a slap at you for drinks.'' He gave me a leather box with three dice m it, and I threw and won, and he took one glass of beer himself and gave me the other. I asked him for a cigar, nnd he handed me one and charged me a shilling for it. The Magistrate hi<re stopped accused, telling him that bis statement had no bearing on tbe case whatever, ;>nd that there wa< no use his proceeding. The prisoner was then committed for trial st tho next criminal sitting of the District Court nt Timaru. This being all the buiinets the Court rose.