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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6437, 5 January 1889, Page 2

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MAGISTRATE'S: COTOfBT. \ CriEISTCHUECH. '. ; v This" Day. , . (before B.Westenxa and F; $. Wiient, : • •■ ■' : -Esq 8 ;) : . .-= :...-?■,.: m ,DBUKKE»rEBs.~A-fitet offender; attested in Cashel ereet^ was fined 5s and 1b cab hire.— Georje Henry Cook, ' arrested in High streetjras fined sb. for drunkenness. IiABCBNT OF A BtJGKJY 1 LAKF.r-John Powell wa&harged with stealinga-buggy lampi value'sß, from James Nancarrow, on Jan. 3. Acused said lie knew nothing about it. James Nancarraw, said lie : was a fruterer in High- street; and , on Jan. 3 hj left, the lamp produced in his trap at ts- back of his shop, in High .^B street, ntarthe White Hart Hotel. /After. A^A wards missed it. It was wortkos. Did fl^B not kaow abused. John Pollan, second- fl[^^| hand dealer, said accused offered, to sell I^^H him 4e lamp for 25. . Witness gave him -^^^| Is6dfor it. Thomas Scott, billard-mark«r S^Bi at fc'e White Hart Hotel, was looting ont .' :^*r of tie window, and b&w . accused false the ■ lan? from the buggy. Detective O'Connor swf e .'that he arrested accused at Sumner yeeerday. He first denied ; takings. , the : laip, and then stated. that he. bought- it frm a man at the White Hart 1 Hotel. Acused said that he, had been: drinking, ad did not know what he had done. The ■•"»*- --finch reserved sentence in this case until -»' hating the other charge, v, -, ,"..;.:■.:. ; * Axlegeu Theft of . a Bicycle— John ; V^. Swell was also charged with" stealing a '■> - Icyole, value JS2o,from Frank S; Matthewa, < High street, on Jan. 3.^ Frank S.. - latthews.said he was. a grocer. at Taylor . ndPapps*. The bicycle was hitrproperfcy.iflft it on Thursday, at about ttwo o'clock* a the right-of-way at the back of the shop. ;; lisaed it at half -past six, , when; he' Wanted pgo home to tea. Saw it nex't^day at Trent , Jroß., in .possession of a young man named Jrown.,Gave j£2o for thebicycle two months - igo. John Pullan, dealer, atcornerof Peterborough and Colombo streets : Saw accosed. t the shop on Jan. 3 with the bicycle now 1 : a Court. - Accused offered to sell it to wibeas (who refnaed to t buy, it) for £5. - -, reused then said he wanted money to go > Sumner, . and would • witoesa lend, .him aon the machine, to be left in witness* ands for sale. ; Accused said; witness wag . ot to take a shilling less than £8 for. it. 7itncßS;lent him; 6s, for ;whioh accaned , igncd a receipt. Witness cauftoncd. him 1 iat if the bicycle was not right he laid hnself open to,l)e committed for trial, as t -, i was worth more than- jGS. Accuwd ,., ad 'he needn't, be ■ afraid'; . it was all : Witness .sold: th& machjn.«t<> ''«»•' imes Brown,, ■ who. paid .no money, and. .■ itnrned the machine, next day. Detective ~ f Connor, said that he oharged. accused, ; oout 12.30 p.m. on the, previous day, .with, be theft. Accused denied; the charge, * ayjng, ■ "I: don't know, anything , about it than a fly," and repeafc&d that many times. ' He then said -he bought it , from a man at the White Hart Hotel, for a pound. The man's name, was Joe M'Gxegor, who had been at work at . the .City Hotel. Witness could find no suoh.man. George . Webster said hewasnova storekeeper, in ' Colombo street. . Was for two, years night porter it the City Hotel. Witness knew no bucl man as , Joe M'fjregor. Kn,ow accused by eight only. James Brown, storeman at Treat Bros.': Witnes| bought the machine from Pulian on Jan. 3. Didnot pay for.it at the time, though he was allowed to take it away. Was to pay >£8 for . it. Witness afterwards took the machine back to Pulian' a. Accused 'said drink had been the .cause of che. theft. . He. was . sentenced to one month's imprisonment with (hard labour for stealing the buggy lamp, and was committed for trial on the charge of larceny <f the bicycle. '