RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3572, 12 March 1886, Page 3

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

TIMABTJ — Thursday, March 11th. (Before F. LeCren and T. W. Hall, Esq.'s J.P.s, and His Worship tho Mayor). DRUNKENNESS. William Cow ley was brought up on remanc charged with this offence. i Inspector Broham explained accused hac been remanded for a week, to see whether h( would improve. He had been informed tha Cowley had remained steady, and had alsi taken the pledge. The Bench fined him 10s, remarking tha he might be thankful he had been solenientlj dealt with. Jerome Cammille was charged witl drunkenness and using obscene language. H< pleaded guilty. Constable Casey haviug proved it was abac case, Cammille was sent to gaol for fourteei days. UNREGISTERED 1)008. The following fines were inflicted for non registered dogs : — M. Brosnahan, one dog 10s, and costs ; Simon Cocbrane, one dog 10s, and coats ; William Fitzgerald, one dog 10s, and costs ; John Paterson, one dog, 10s. and costs j Andrew Young, two dogs, 10i each, and coßts; Dugald Bine, three dogs 10s each for two (the other being under age) ; Henry Campbell, one dog, 10s, and costs i Morice Moore, one dog, 10s, and costs ; Cornelius Sullivan, one dog, 10s and costs \ Benjamin Kelly, one dog, 10s and costs ; James Brahaut, one dog, 10s and costs ; John Eeilly, one iflog, 10s and costs ; Joseph King, one dog, 10s and costs ; F. Osborn, one dog, 10s and costs s G. Shirtcliffe, one dog, 10s and costs; Hester Kenneth, one dog, 10s and costs ; F. Burchell, one dog, 10s and costs ; Helen McAusland, 1 dog, 10s and costs ; Robert Holme, one dog, 10s and costs ; Lawrence Harnett, three dogs, £1, the Bench taking into consideration certain mitigating circumstances ; Chas. Hackett, one dog, 10s and costs j Hngh Muir, one dog, 10s and costs. The case against John Fearon was adjourned for a week, to enable the police tc make farther enquiries as to the ownership oi the dog. HOBSES AT IABGE7 William Miller pleaded guilty to allowing five horses to wanuar at large on tho Pareora road, and was fined 15s and costs iv a similar amount. James King' was fined 5s and costs foi allowing a horse to be at large m the Borough. Mr XeCren here left the Bench. HORSE STEALING. James Macdonald was charged on remand with stealing at Pleasant Point one chesnut gelding, the property of Kichard Chuto. Mr Hamersley appeared for the acoused, who pleaded not guilty. Inspector Broham conducted the prosecution, and called Bichard Chute, who deposed: I am a laborer, living at Kerrytown. I purchased the chesnut gelding now outside from David Gibson about the 15th of last month. I paid £6 10s for it. It has a star on the forehead and tho letter S reversed on the off shoulder. On March Ist I turned it into George Shepherd's paddook at Pleasant Point. Mrs Shepherd saw me do so. I was to pay a shilling a week for the grazing. I shut the gate, but did not lock it. Last Saturday morning I went for the horse but found it gone. I made enquiries about it, and then communicated with the police. I went with Detective Kirby on Sunday, the 7th, to Cookson's farm, on the Mount Horrible Koad. I saw my horse there. I do not know tho prisoner. I never authorised him or anyone else to take the horse out of the paddock. To Mr Hamorsley : I had some conversation with accused on Saturday night. He acknowledged selling a horse. I asked him for a description of it, and he said his horse was a chesnut, branded B on the off shoulder, and had no star on tho forehead. I said nothing more to him except telling him mine bad a star. To tho Bench : I paid £6 10s for the horse without saddle or bridle. David Gibson, a horse dealer at Pleasant Point, corroborated prosecutor's statement as to bis selling the horso outside tho Court to him. George Shepherd : lam a farmer living at Pleasant Point. I made an arrangement with the prosecutor about the end of February to allow him to graze his horse m my paddock. He came to me on March 6th to look for his horae, but could not find it. There wero about twenty-five others m the paddock at the same time. To Mr Hamersley : Welch and Smith put a chestnut horse m the paddock for James Macdonald at the same time. I have seen both Chuto's and Macdonald's horses now outside the Court. Margaret Shepherd : I am the wife of last witness. Chuto brought a chestnut horse to our place on March Ist, spme time m the afternoon. I saw it placed m the paddock. Alexander Waugh : I am a stockman m the employ of Messrs Jonas and Bourn, auctioneers, Timaru. On March Ist I saw accused at Pleasant Point. He offered me a horse for sale He had not got it with him at the time. I told him if he brought it into town I might buy it. The following day I saw him at the Woshdyke with a chestDut horse. He offered it to me, and asked £5 for it with saddle and bridle. I did not purohnse it. On Friday I again met him, and he said he would take £3 155, bnt no transaction took place. On Saturday lost he entered the horse, saddle, and bridle at Jonas and Bourn's auction rooms, and it was sold to Cookson foi £5. To Mr Hamersley : I hove only known accused since the New Tear. I understand he is a baker by trade. He gave ag a reason foi selling the horse that he wanted to go to Dunedin, and desired to pay for its livery. He made no concealment about the horse. I saw Chute on Saturday night with accused. The latter described to Chute the horse he had sold as bis own. I think he believed he hod sold his own animal. Henry Cookson : lam a dairyman residing at Mount Horrible Boad. I bought the horse now outaide the Court at Jonas one Bourn's rooms on Saturday last, paying £6 for it. Detective E^iby : I arrested accused or the 7th mat. on the present charge, m conßO' quence of a complaint by Chnto. Accuaec said the horse was his, that he had purohasec it a fortnight after last Timaru Show from on< George Parker, a storekeeper at Fairlio Creek and that it was branded B on the nem shoulder. I afterwards went to Cookaon't and took possession of the horae. To Mr Hamersley .- Accused described thi horse he sold as if he believed it was his. This was the evidence for the prosecution For tho defence, Mr Hamersley called William Welch, who deposed : I am i blacksmith at Pleasant Point. About si: weeks ago accused brought me a horse b look after for him. He wanted to sell it ai he had done with it. I put it m a paddocl first m TTrquhart's and then m Shepherd's Accused never «aw the hone again till a bo; fetched it from the paddock about a weel ago. The boy said the one he brought baci was accused's. Accused did not want U take the horse away, but wanted to sell i as it was " eating its head off." It was abou dusk when the boy brought the horse Accused had had a few beers. He wanted £4 I am quite sure a mistake was made. To Inspector Broham : Accused, when h camo first with the horse, said it was a littl lame. I don't know that I should recognis it again. My mate told me I had made mistake m not buying it, as it was quite wel again. The Bench Baid they were quite satisfied i was a case of mistaken identity, and dismisse the charge. Tb,e Court then rose.