RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3052, 26 November 1878, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

THIS DAY. (Before Colonel Fraser, X.'M.)

LABCENY.

Mary Jane Oogan was charged with feloniously stealing one pair of children's shoes, value Ss 6d, the property of .one Wm. Danby, on the 20th inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr Bullen said the defendant, with two women, entered the prosecutor's shop. Mr Danby missed the shoes, and suspectd the defendant had them. Wm.. JJanby, sworn, deposed—l saw the defendant in my shop on Saturday evening last. She came with her mother and another woman. They were looking at a lot of boots, but did not buy any. I missed the boots (produced), and felt the girl's pockets, where they were. I told her to give them to mo. She said she hadn't them. I then took them out of her pecket and put h>r out., James Paul (a boy in employ of Mr Danby), sworn, deposed—That he had seen the boots taken out of the defendant's pocket. Mr Danby told the girl to go out. She wouldn't. ' Detective Brennan, sworn, deposed— That he yesterday apprehended accused on information from Mr Danby. His Worship asked the, defendant if she had anything to say. She had not. She was 13 years old. ' His Worship said he would remand her till to-morrow with a view to send her to the Industrial School. ASSAULT. , ' ' Frederick A. Pulleine was charged with unlawfully assaulting Wm. J. Speight in Owen street, Thames, on the 25th inst. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Wm. J. Speight entered the box, snd was about to give evidence, when it was stopped, witness, in' answer to the bench, j saying he had cot laid the information, but Mr Lawlor had. Mr Millar said his client would plead guilty to striking Mr Speight under aggravating circumstances (whereupon the plea of not guilty was altered to "guilty.") The aggravation complained of was that Mr Speight had said to Mr Pulleine that j Dr Eilgour's former committee were all " loafers; " and also "You (defendant) can be' bought and sold any time for money." Mr Pulleine had asked him to retract what he had said, which he decjined to do, consequently defendant struck him.

Mr Speight here said, the version as given by Mr Miller was incorrect from beginning to end. .It was not in the Pacific hotel but in the Advertiser Office he had been struck. He was struck two or three times.

His Worship said people should not be too thin-skinned at election times. He would bind defendant over to keep the peace for three months, ia one surety of £10. Court adjourned.