MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 345, 21 July 1875, Page 3

MAGISTRATES' COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday, July 21. [Before G. L. Mellish, Esq., R.M.] Drunk and Disorderly. —George Fodden was fined 5s for drunkenness.

Larcency from a Till. —Harry Haines, a little boy nine years old, and small for his age, was charged with stealing 3s from the till of Thomas Tuersley, green grocer, Oxford terrace. Mr Tuersley stated that the boy had been with him for the last five years, and he had been paid for keeping him up to the last two years. From what he heard he sent the boy into the shop the previous day to take charge of it, and before doing so placed twenty shillings and some small coins in the till. He (witness) then left the shop, and watched him, when he saw him shortly afterwards put his left hand into the till, and take something out. He (witness) went in and spoke to him, counted the money in the till, and found three shillings had been abstracted, which he found in the hand of accused. The boy had been in the habit of minding the shop now and then. His father was a bookmaker, living in Melbourne, but had lately gone to England, and his mother was in Sydney. The boy had been left in his charge, and he went regularly to the High school. He (witness) expected the lad's father would come for him some day. The boy did not often receive presents of monej. Inspector Buckley said he could prove by the evidence of another boy that the accused always had money, and as he was not in the habit of being given it, it could only be supposed that he had made a practice of taking money out of the till His Worship ordered the boy to be sent to the Industrial School for six years to be brought up in the teaching of the Church of England.