Magisterial.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 729, 23 September 1870, Page 3

Magisterial.

CHRISTCHURCH.

This Day. (Before C. C. Bowen, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness.— John Hoarn and Margaret Dempßey, each charged with having been drunk and incapable yesterday, were dismissed with a caution, it being their first offence of the kind. — James Ryan, for having been drunk and disorderly in front of the Wellington Hotel, Tuam street, yesterday, was fined 10s. Laecent. — Charles Drain, on remand from yesterday, for stealing a shirt, the property of a fellow lodger at Lodge's Coffee-house, High street, wa§ again brought up. Prisoner at the first hearing asserted that he had purchased the shirt at Mr Black's, High street, and bad worn it whilst working at Mr Tetley's previous to living at Lodge's. Evidence was now called to show this statement to be a false one. G. E. Chitty, shopman at Mr Black's, said there had not bsen a shirt like the one produced in Mr Black's Bhop for more than three months. John Tetley said he never saw prisoner wear the shirt produced whilst in his service. Prisoner wore the one he had on in Court, but no other. Margaret Phelan, servant at Lodge's Coffeehouse, said she never saw prisoner wear the shirt produced, or have it in his possession whilst residing at Mr Lodge's. His Worship said, after this, and the positive identification of the shirt by the prosecutor, no doubt of the theft could be entertained, and prisoner would be sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour.